Quotes About Achievement

What you lose pursuing your dreams is waiting for you once you achieve them.

You are only greater than what you overcome.

You become greater than what you conquer within.

You have to fight extraordinary battles to win extraordinary victories.

You have to take great risks to get great rewards.

You were born a star; your deeds determine how brightly you'll shine.

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

Your dreams are ink; reality is the canvas. Paint masterpieces.

Your greatest challenges bring out your greatest potential.

Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

In 10 years' time, what do you want your name to be synonymous with?

It takes courage and conviction to succeed in the spotlight.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

Entendía que mi vida no tenía sentido, y ese conocimiento me liberaba de tener que lograr cualquier cosa.

Is it the lack of opportunity that creates the lack of ambition, or has that always existed? Most of them must have parents who work, or who studied, and who of course want the same thing for their kids. But how do you find that in a town where the major achievement was always seen as escaping it? Eventually

For the ultrarealist, goals exist not to be achieved but to stimulate striving and to drive progress toward the fulfillment of potential. This is why champions set goals that are hard to achieve, and why they welcome opportunities to raise their game.

I beat cancer, I had kids, and I did this with a disability. You couldn't knock me off that mountaintop.

That it's possible. You just have to fight. It will not be easy. But you can manage. Because life is giving you as much pain as you are capable [of living] with. And on the end of that path, the goal will be reachable. You will have suffered to do [it], but it doesn't matter.

This pain and suffering. This was my trophy ceremony.

Afterward, AR50 race director Julie Fingar pulled me aside and explained to me that the whole reason ultrarunners become ultrarunners is that they're too slow to qualify for Boston.

to turn pro." "It bothers me that so many runners feel they somehow don't deserve to take the sport all the way and find out how good they can be," I said. "I wish more folks with average talent would just go for it.

You don't become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many day, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.