Quotes About Achievement

Today, we are able to do what your parents would would have dismissed as impossible and your grandparents as nothing short of magical.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't make - Wayne Gretzky

You have become so good that every mistake you make has a spotlight on it.

Maybe that kid was in the back of the ensemble and he wasn't even good, or he was an abomination. I don't care. He was onstage and he was having a ball, and I'm absolutely thrilled because I've taken that kid to a place he never imagined and may never be again." •

From the vantage point of the present, the prize promised by the idea of progress can look less like an achievement than an affront.

Live and learn,learn and apply,apply and overcome.

as a runner.  We'll go through each activity in detail after reviewing the outline:

But think about it: Right from the start the odds are against you. It's kind of amazing that any of us ever get here at all.

Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?

You have to have the vision of what it is you are going to achieve by the hard work, but more importantly, you have to find a way to make the hard work fun … every workout is a small competition within yourself. John "Big Jake" Carenza, 1972 Olympics – Soccer

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

if the chief drivers are the desire to put a human imprint on another world and our innate needs to see over the next hill and stick it to everybody in high school who thought we'd never amount to anything, then maybe we should put lots of cash into nuclear fusion research.

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

A life lived in pursuit of a goal leaves little time for reminiscence.

Nefericirea noastr? nu atinge apogeul decât atunci când am întrez?rit, îndeajuns de aproape, posibilitatea practic? a fericirii.

Il n'y a pas beaucoup à gagner dans ce monde

Una vida volcada hacia una meta deja poco sitio para el recuerdo

After my baccalaureate, I signed up for acting lessons; there followed some inglorious years, during which I grew nastier and nastier and, as a consequence, more and more caustic; thanks to this, success finally arrived—on a scale that surprised me.

Cécile lo dijo con un extraño orgullo, a pesar de que a todas luces no sabía nada de esos escritores, y es curioso el orgullo que sienten los padres por los estudios de sus hijos, incluso y sobre todo cuando no entienden nada de ellos, es un hermoso sentimiento humano, pensó Paul.

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops.

I'm going to do what you did," it ran, "only I'm going to do it quicker, better and for more money. Because I'm me.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.