Quotes About Achievement

My work is never perfect. It always can be better but I just believe that we need to achieve a really high level of excellence. I don't believe in the "Good Enough" principle as a Christian.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.

I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

I have reached a limit in my work.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

My work is one long triumph over my limitations.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....

I just want to do really good work.

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.