Quotes About Achievement

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

If where winning spiritually, we're a winner.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.

I once interviewed Robert Solow, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics and a noted baseball enthusiast. I asked if it bothered him that he received less money for winning the Nobel Prize than Roger Clemens, who was pitching for the Red Sox at the time, earned in a single season. "No," Solow said. "There are a lot of good economists, but there is only one Roger Clemens." That is how economists think.

all his life, all he's ever wanted was to be Kung Fu guy. But when he finally got it, he realizes what his mother meant. 'You can be more.

The son who got As in every subject, including English, now making a living as Generic Asian Man.

Insisten?a e calea spre a ob?ine ce vrei.

Competition is good, and the only way to win is to try a little harder than everybody else in the game. The sooner young people find that out, the better off they'll be.

It was to be another one of those moments when just a few words will change your whole life. She said, "You have been invited to join the Grand Ole Opry!" Did I hear her right? Did she really say what I thought she said? At the age of seventy-one, was I really going to realize one of my longest-held and fondest dreams?

When you develop an attitude of "I'm going to accomplish what I want even if I have to work twice as hard as anybody else," you're going to get there.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

Achieving excellence is being passionate about what you're doing and working so hard that they have to hire two people to replace you.

You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.