Quotes About Achievement

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

I think you can have it all, you just have to work really hard because great things don't come easily.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying.

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.

I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.