Quotes About Achievement

Practice is the effort that makes winning possible

Perfection is possible

Winning isnt everything, but losin is nothing.

What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they're not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

It's pretty nice to be talented. If you are, enjoy, but it won't take you that far. Work takes you a lot further.

There are no limits to your dreams, aspirations or power!

I almost can't believe you won first place, because the painting deserves it so much, and people who deserve to win hardly ever do.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

success in any field—be it sports, the arts, business, science, and certainly the military—requires both confidence AND competence.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause

Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.

If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, energizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

Live the kind of life you can be proud of in the end, even if you get lost or make mistakes along the way. The kind of life that'll earn you a "you fought well"... have lots of happy and sad times, and grow old like that.