Quotes About Achievement

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals.

I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'

I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I'm very excited for the final.

I just came out of the gym from three hours this morning. I got five hours of sleep. That's it. Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't give up.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.