Quotes About Achievement

Winners have no interest or association in the opinions, actions or affairs of losers.

The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

No gains without pains.

If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

Focus on quality and ease of movement, not on the age a milestone is accomplished.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.

I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.