Quotes About Achievement

Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he has been running since he was in elementary school - kind of like Mitt Romney.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

Man is emphatically self-made.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

I reflect back on my mom's journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it out tremendously. I reflect back on that a lot.

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.