Quotes About Achievement

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

It was a joyful last mile," she said in her book Paula: My Story So Far, about the real-life race, and she surely earned that joy. She had talked herself through near-exhaustion by counting to 100, by aiming at landmarks, and by thoughts like, "No matter how exhausted I might feel, a half-an-hour run is one I can manage." She pushed all the way, under 5 minutes for the last mile, never tempted to save anything for another day.

The Captain stepped into the stirrup and was proud of the fact that at age seventy-one he could step up from the ground onto a sixteen-hand horse. With some pain but no flinching he swung into the saddle.

In January 1973, Murray lost Barlow to cancer. By September, she had resigned from Brandeis University and entered the General Theological Seminary. The year after she earned her Master of Divinity degree, she became the first African-American woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest.

Confidence comes with mastery, and the combination enables me to reach new heights.

All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.

I could have lived through it all if only I continued to have the feeling that at the end of childhood, at the end of adolescence, there was something else in this life that would be mine, that I could make with my bare hands, and once I had made it, I could say, I did this to my life. I made my life so.

The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Dont fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

I think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

Les victoires et les défaites font grandir et rayonner les gens. — Utau

I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

It made a good daydream, but I've learned that if you want dreams to come true, you have to take action.

small steps.

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....