Quotes About Achievement

I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

It's really the striving-the person becomes aware that whatever he is striving for becomes the cost.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

Success is somebody else's failure.

I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get.

Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

When I die, my tombstone is going to say: "The Guy Who Hired Jonathan Ive"!

When most students might build half a dozen models, Jony had built a hundred

He pointed to Butt, behind his drum set. "There he is. Don't smell so good and can't hardly talk. But he can drub those drums better than the best... and this is Mr. Jerod Powers, the Golden Boy.

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Many dreams come true, and some have silver linings

But he who accomplishes a truly human work, he who does some- 33 thing really great and victorious, is never spurred to his task by those trifling attractions called by the name of "prizes," nor by the fear of those petty ills which we call "punishments." If

Easy dosen't matter to Lyudmila. Easy has never mattered. Possible is what matters.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

We all want to 'count for something'–to make a difference. And, accountability helps us get where want to go in terms of achieving our goals and fulfilling our responsibilities.

Don't just stand there; make something happen.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.