Quotes About Achievement

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

I did a production of 'Journey's End ' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state.

The Romans themselves had always dreaded that this might be their destiny. As Sallust, their first great historian, put it, "There can be no doubting that Fortune is the mistress of all she surveys, the creature of her own caprices, choosing to broadcast the fame of one man while leaving that of another in darkness, without any regard for the scale of what they might both have achieved.

Achievement was worth of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest greatness of all still belonged to the Roman Republic itself

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more. That means you´ll work harder for a while; that means you'll work longer for a while. But you'll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road

How many no's am I willing to accept on my way to success?

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct porption to the number of times I can fail and keep trying.

In this profession, no one limits your income but you. There are no income ceilings.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." ~ Colin Powell

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep the streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well."1 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

France's brilliant general Maurice de Saxe displayed audacious courage at twelve and commanded a regiment by seventeen

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

The reward for good work is more work!