Quotes About Achievement

ealth you can do anything you set your mind

You're a success because you've done what you meant to do. You're a success by your own standard and it's your own standard that matters.

We've all got to start,' Mac pointed out. 'And Dad said in his letter that you were to have the chance of killing a good stag. I know how you feel; I felt the same about my first stag: butterflies in the tummy?

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

Then what have you proved?" I asked. "Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.

I am my own version of the DREAM Act.

The technical challenges were technical challenges that were not unbeatable; it was just that we had to learn how to do things and how to build a sensitive enough device. That took us 20 years after we built the first version of the LIGO detector.

It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.

What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.

I learned about this talent show on TV that was basically the Estonian version of 'American Idol.' So I lied about my age, went on the show, and won. I think my story is about working really hard and dreaming really big.

Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.

I won a title versus Rey Mysterio, it's incredible.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

A great team versus another great team, your performance is going to go down. But my job is to improve my consistency where, when I dominate against the lesser teams, go and do well and do the same amount of work when I'm going against the Alabamas and the LSUs, and it will come.

For me, I like any win I can get. It doesn't really matter where it is or who it's versus.

Listen... it's one versus 38. You win 10% of the time, you're a Hall of Famer.

I was 270 lbs with a 48-inch vertical, benching 500 pounds, running a 4.5, 4.6.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.

I'm very blessed, thankful, grateful for the opportunities I've had.