Quotes About Achievement

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

I just felt like I can try to do something special.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.