Quotes About Achievement

If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.

I'm pretty much the definition of an American Hero.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

He's so outta my league, we're not even playing the same sport… He's professional soccer in Europe and I'm intramural badminton in the States.

I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won

Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the blame

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It is.

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

...thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I'd like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall be, and it's an image that I keep with me at all times.

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Once an angel said to the dreamer, "You will get whatever you want in your life in this world and from this world".