Quotes About Achievement

Roc Nation is strong, I'm strong and powerful on my own, and when we put it together we're unstoppable.

I'm afraid of being poor; I'm afraid of living in the projects... I'm afraid of being thought as unsuccessful.

If you are being criticised, and you are unsuccessful, then that can be a low for you. But if you are doing good and still being slammed, then it is good.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

When you're younger, you kind of assume you'll be fine at whatever. Then you get older, and you're either unsuccessful and you wonder why, or you're successful and you wonder why.

Merlin is the unsung hero who is often responsible for things turning out positively, but rarely gets credit for that.

The 2013 Boston Marathon was, for me, a milestone. A bucket list event that was supposed to be my last marathon until my next big milestone, turning 50. But I couldn't leave marathoning on a memory like that, so I am running this year to honor everyone in the running community and those unsung heroes from April 15, 2013.

I think pressure exists in a situation only when you are unsure of your talent and people are expecting a lot from you due to your lineage.

Dropping 25 pounds was something I was unsure about. It seemed like a pointless adventure, in a way.

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

I've found that nurturing untapped potential is far more exhilarating than finding someone who has already peaked.

In Bollywood they think if a leading lady can do one free-falling kick she's achieved the unthinkable.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.

Your ideas and the things that you do are dumb and stupid and make no sense - until you start getting recognized and making money. Then you're a genius.

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.

Sometimes you don't quite realise what you have achieved until you look back.