Quotes About Achievement

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Second Place is just the first place loser.

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

Competition is my life; winning is my only goal

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.

I am confident that an even greater harvest will be achieved now as righteous, committed missionaries fulfill the Savior's commandment to preach his gospel.

I want to watch you walk through the world before you leave it and if you stumble I'll rush forward to catch you. I like to think I'd show you the kindness you never showed me. I'd like you to owe me a favour. I want to show you that I did it. I want you to be proud of me.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Damon Galgut

That's what I love about people. They have dreams and grand ambitions, and they start building towards them, even though they know they won't live to see them finished. That's how the pyramids were built.

There will always be another goal, another prospect.

Toil and blood, effort and hardship, these were payments worth making in return for a greater future. Ideals were never won cheaply, whether the cost was the raising of one dream city or the razing of another.

What was my personal Big Bang? Did I get hooked on guns because I discovered I was good at precisely the moment I was experiencing my first feelings of masculine inadequacy? All I knew at the time was that the rifle range replaced the nurse's office as my place of refuge.

This is number one, Mr. Namath.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Alan Shepard was the first and only interplanetary golfer," Coke told his sister. "He was also the first and only interplanetary litterbug," Moe said. "What he did was disgraceful.

No Bell Prize

pitch. Guess where it went? Yeah, it sailed into the stands and hit Alice. It broke a bone in her knee! That lady was not having a good day. Deion Sanders is the only person in history to hit a home run in a Major League Baseball game and score a touchdown in the National Football League in the same week! The most valuable baseball card in the world is a Honus Wagner card from 1909–10. In perfect condition, it's worth more than two million dollars.

I'll announce the winning class at the end of the day.