Quotes About Achievement

I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

There is a glory in a great mistake.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

I always had that desire to become a great athlete.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.