Quotes About Achievement

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

I think everything is possible as long as long as you put your mind, work and time into it.

I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.

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.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

People were always reaching for what they didn't have—fame or wealth, youth or love, some final victory or vengeance. They chased after the prizes that would sum up their lives, seeking to complete themselves. It was so easy to get caught up in the chase.

If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

He would crawl until his body could support a crutch. If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant

If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

If luck wouldn't find him, we would do his best to make his own.

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Afterwards he congratulated me on a new university record for the most organs hit with one needle in a single procedure.

life is about getting the next footstep right.

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

Achievers are not afraid of failure but the fear of not starting.

whether or not you are already there, you will probably agree that a Stage Six default is worthy of your aspirations in just about any area of life. Life is a wonderful occasion. Rising to that occasion means becoming far bigger than your roles. That is the breakthrough to Stage Six. I also see this stage as the major part of a new and apt definition of positive mental health. Stage Six is the first of the two Target Stages. A Default Stage here breaks you out of the pack

the Inventing merit badge, which required a Scout to not only invent a new device or mechanism but also to obtain a U.S. patent for it. Needless to say, not many Scouts ever attempted this badge during its four-year existence and it is something of a miracle that nine Scouts managed to earn it.

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style