Quotes About Achievement

There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.

This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement ever?

Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

The only purpose of starting is to finish

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.

Ultimately, the film [Dream of Life] is inspirational.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

Never shame to hear what you have nobly done

She hasn't run faster than herself before

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.