Quotes About Achievement

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

For me it is a matter of pride that I have been born in the age in the which Tendulkar is playing

When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.

I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.