Quotes About Achievement

My biggest fear used to be that I would run into a challenge that would block me from achieving success. Now my biggest fear is self-doubt. For it is in the mind that these battles are won and lost.

Ensuring that his career, education, or other goals are prioritized

Medals hang from his neck in a glittering array, like jewelry, like starts that will now go out because their sun no longer burns.

All my life I have been trying to improve my German. At last my German is better —but now I am old and ill and don't have long to live. Soon I will be dead, with better German.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Ontem um velhinho de oitenta e dois anos atravessou o Canal da Mancha, vupt! vupt! nadando. A múmia chegou inteira e ainda pediu um conhaque.

At length the long-wished-for fall of 1856 arrived — long wished for because I could not be sure of an income adequate to support a wife until I was admitted to the bar, and I could not be admitted to the bar until I was twenty-one.

tried to do you proud.

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

The noblest search is the search for excellence

I've been doing this for 50 years now and instead of retiring I'm busier than ever, though perhaps not as fast at getting things done. It's all terrifically interesting and very satisfying.

When you have a dream and are committed to achieving it, your life takes on new meaning. By unfolding a dream, you discover what makes you happy and brings you joy.

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

There is no more prideful creature than a man born poor.

Desire inspires us to be our very best.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

Florence Nightingale's greatest achievement was her ability to link infection to unclean environs despite the absence of the germ theory. Nightingale's patients were also around a hundred years too early to benefit from the advent of antibiotics.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

Lynn Thorndike

When he heard the news, Luftwaffe General Walter Dornberg, the director of the Peenemünde center, exultantly crowed to his staff, "This afternoon, the spaceship was born." But, as Dornberg knew, this first successful test flight of the V-2 rocket—the world's first long-range ballistic missile—had a much more immediate importance