Quotes About Achievement

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged on one thing: the result.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hours--his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle--victorious.

I've never been connected with a losing team and I hope to instill a winning spirit in the Packers in a lot less than five years.

The quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victory.

The objective is to win -- fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win.

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained in sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because they feel sorry for me! I am an actress. I am a singer. I am a performer. That's what I do! Once I started giving myself a little credit, the whole world opened up.

I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

What is the end of Fame? 't is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour; For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their 'midnight taper,' To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!