Quotes About Achievement

I felt I would live a long, lonely, useless life and die alone and unmissed (did I mention that I never bothered filling out any grad-school applications?) It's self-indulgent, I know, but this is what happens to the overachieving but essentially useless children of parents who raised their children to do well on tests but failed to equip them with the poison-tipped spurs of true ambition.

any change that comes about in your life will be primarily because of your own efforts

we have more efficient, more focused, and more effective ways of achieving the ends we want.

Dreams become reality through faith and perseverance.

The reason the stars are so high up into the sky is because they belong to those with high determination

It's not how you start that's important, but how you finish!

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.'

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

I am proud of all of the products in the Ed Hardy family.

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

I was first in my family to go to college.

I really have to pinch myself to believe that I'm part of the TAG Heuer family

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

I do this for her and my family. This is my way of paying my mom back by going after my goals relentlessly and trying to win that Oscar one day.

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

I have the most amazing and supportive family. My parents always encouraged us to aim high and follow our dreams. They instilled in us that nothing worth having comes easy.