Quotes About Achievement

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Great men grow tired of contentedness.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

All great things are done for their own sake.

As is commonly said, 'to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.'

We must be young to do great things.

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.