Quotes About Achievement

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who don't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves-people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

I didn't train all that time just to come here and get it over with as fast as I can

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.