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Quotes About Achievement

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
~ Natalie du Toit
I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can
~ Terrence Howard
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
~ Charles Barkley
If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.
~ Jerry Pinkney
I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.
~ Aaliyah
All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.
~ Asher Brown Durand
The only reason I got into MMA was to be the best.
~ Chris Weidman
There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.
~ Benigno Aquino III
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.
~ Helen Keller
To be the best and stay there, sweat is necessary.
~ Ray Lewis
I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.
~ Hidetoshi Nakata
How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
~ Nana Mouskouri
I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.
~ Emmy Rossum
I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.
~ Bonnie Blair
Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.
~ Laurel Clark
Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
~ Bonnie Blair
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
~ Jay-Z
I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best museums with them.
~ Mark Kostabi
There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.
~ Shirley Henderson
You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.
~ Terrell Davis
The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.
~ Kenny G
As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.
~ Al Lewis