Quotes About Achievement

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

We are losing the majority of the new generation. They will not achieve anything close to their potential because of poor reading.

se mantenían convencidos de que el rendimiento de la más alta calidad se obtenía cuando los individuos y los equipos apuntaban más alto.

Or maybe when you have the sheer force of will to keep doing something over and over again until you get it right, winning feels more like relief than anything else.

That's how you know you're The Money—when you build so many rooms it's impossible to fill them, no matter how much you procreate

Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

It's kind of like... It's kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there and the other player is there, and it's just the two of us and I put the other player's body in my van. And I am the winner.

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.

To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.

Black people dominate sports in the United States - 20 percent of the population and 90 percent of the Final Four. We own this sh*t. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that sh*t too.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

The other coach encouraged me to go for it. I took two of my kids and had one belay me. Halfway through, the rest of the team drove up and were cheering me on. It wasn't the time to do Shadow Boxing, but I was climbing well, the conditions changed in a positive direction, and I had all that support. I made it.

What we are describing is a mindset change from "doing my job" to "doing the job." It is also a change in focus from "what we are doing" (work) to what is getting done (results).

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I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

the major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than the goal you achieve.

The fact that you have failed to get the lesser proves conclusively that you deserve the greater.

Count nothing lost; even the day that sees "no worthy action done" may be a day of preparation and accumulation that will add greatly to the achievements of tomorrow. Many a day was made famous because nothing was done the day before.

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything & and make your optimisom come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best. Forget the mistakes of the past & press on the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to critize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.

The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.