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Quotes About Achievement

Every success is the mother of countless others.
~ Henry Ford
My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.
~ Marilyn Horne
Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.
~ Eve Arden
Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.
~ Wilferd Peterson
Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
~ Samuel Smiles
Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.
~ Gabrielle Reece
Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
~ Sophia Loren
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
~ Bernie Worrell
And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.
~ Nicole Kidman
I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's
~ Kate Hudson
Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.
~ Gene Simmons
All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.
~ Mary Crosby
When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?
~ Mary Higgins Clark
My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.
~ Stevie Wonder
My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
~ Christie Hefner
I'd like to buy my mother her dream home. Hopefully it will happen soon.
~ Zulay Henao
On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course.
~ Jean Tirole
I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.
~ Louise Fletcher
I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.
~ Marc Cherry
Yippee. I've been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I'll write a letter home to Mother. She'll be so pleased." --Leif
~ Maria V. Snyder
You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
~ Orson Scott Card
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.
~ Roz Chast