Quotes About Achievement

Do any of us know how we're actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.

Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and confident in the future; this is to have achieved some measure of success in living.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.

I love the work I do.

There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.

For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.

I definitely think with a lot of hard work, I can be a better player than I was last year, and hopefully, continue to raise the bar every year.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.

When I moved to Los Angeles, my goal was to gain respect - whether it's in big or small projects - and as long as the work is good I'm happy.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.