Quotes About Achievement

Success and failure are terrible traps.

If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.

Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Who you become today will determine what you are capable of creating tomorrow.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

Take your passion and make it happen.

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

Don't ever be impressed with goal setting. Be impressed with goal getting.

We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

Hope is not a dream but a way of bringing things into reality.

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

It's not over until you win

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

This is our moment. This is our destiny. It's a good destiny

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

What the mind cab conceive, it can achieve

Try not to confuse longevity with a job well done.