Quotes About Achievement

You are no longer a young girl who believes that she should be out of life what is best. Just nothing you do not. A couple of times you get lucky and drop you from the sky this or that, accidentally and undeservedly, but most of the things you have to fight it alone and you can enjoy if you get half of what you wanted.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

As an answer on any test, the best of you will always be better than the least of you.

Good is good and enough is enough, but good enough is not…

Most readily measure the inches and feet of life's ups and downs, but it is only the foot forward that really counts.

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

It's folly to measure your success in money or fame. Success is measured only by your ability to say yes to these two questions: Did I do the work I needed to do? Did I give it everything I had?

We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.

Ask yourself: What is the best I can do? And then do that.

Work hard. Do good. Be incredible.

It required me to suffer. It compelled me to reach.

The thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.

I had arrived. I'd done it. It seemed like such a small thing and such a tremendous thing at once, like a secret I'd always tell myself though I didn't know the meaning of it just yet.

Bring the man you aspire to be, the one who already has the love he longs for. Play every piece of yourself and play it with all you've got until you're not playing anymore. That's what Cary Grant did. The lonely boy who lost his mom in the fog of his father's deceit found himself in the magic of wanting to be. His name was Archibald Leach.

Oregón! —exclamó, y casi me dejé arrastrar por el júbilo de su voz, casi me llevó a creer que esos 320 kilómetros eran coser y cantar, pero de sobra sabía que no era así. Para mí, todas y cada una de las semanas en el sendero habían sido un suplicio. —Oregón —admití,

There wasn't a day on the trail when that monotony didn't ultimately win out, when the only thing to think about was whatever was the physically hardest. It was a sort of scorching cure. I counted my steps, working my way to a hundred and starting over again at one. Each time I completed another set it seemed as if I'd achieved a small thing. Then a hundred became too optimistic and I went to fifty, then twenty-five, then ten.

We are here to build the house.

on the PCT, broke, but okay—getting to do what I wanted to do even though a reasonable person would have said I couldn't afford to do it.

The only way to override your limitations, insecurities, jealousies, and ineptitude is to produce.

You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.

I never forgot you, even after all these years," she told me. "I'm so proud of you," I said, squeezing her shoulder. "I made it," she said. "Didn't I?" "You did," I said. "You absolutely did." I never forgot her either. Her name was Desiré.

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.