Quotes About Achievement

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

I now hope the Arsenal fans can get on with their lives and forget me, they should celebrate their third-place achievement and I will focus on winning titles.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.

Already I've bettered my result from Snapper. It's a long year; plenty of the top guys will hopefully have one early exit, and let's just hope Snapper was mine.

Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!

I hope everybody could get rich and famous.

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.