Quotes About Achievement

Fuck man, it's not success that's hard to deal with, it's … uh, the other thing.

Show me a motherfucker who's relaxed and I'll show you a motherfucker that's afraid of success.

Rick played trumpet as a schoolboy, and always maintained that he played the piano before he could walk… but would then add that he didn't walk until he was ten.

The end of the Animals tour marked another low point. David now says that this was one period when he really felt that it might be all up for Pink Floyd. His view is that we had achieved, and sustained, the success we had originally wanted as a band, and accordingly were finding it difficult to see what more we could do.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.

Education does not promise success, but makes it easier.

It's all just zeros and ones. You're a zero. And I've won.

Do not accept second best.

When I see something I desire, I take it. When it is out of my reach, I plan, meticulously, how I may obtain it. And when there is a trophy that everyone claims is unreachable, it only makes me want it more. And I achieve it.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.

Nico Hulkenberg

Two risks, not one. But it was done.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.

Gebildet ist der Mensch, der die höchsten Ergebnisse des Geistes in physiologische Reflexe umformt.

Precision in philosophy is a false elegance. On the other hand, literary precision is the foundation of aesthetic achievement.

Die Jahre der Jugend genügen in einer zivilisierten Gesellschaft, um die Sensibilität, die Intelligenz, die Seele zu erziehen. Heute ist dies durch den Einsatz eines ganzen Lebens kaum zu erreichen

Not seeking the truth is a sign of mediocrity; but it is no sign of greatness to find them.

Posterity is not going to understand what an achievement mere good sense is in this insane century.

Yesterday we believed that it was sufficient to scorn what man achieves; today we know that we must also scorn what he desires.