Quotes About Achievement

For days I could talk of nothing else with my mother except my ambitions to be a great man, a great colored man, to reflect credit on the race and gain fame for myself.

As I grew older, my love for reading grew stronger. I read with studious interest everything I could find relating to colored men who had gained prominence. My heroes had been King David, then Robert the Bruce; now Frederick Douglass was enshrined in the place of honor.

The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced. The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great literature and art. No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.

I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

You've worked hard for that flat gut. Trust it.

I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly what type of player I wanted to become.

Kazuo Ishiguro, the New Nobel Laureate, Has Supremely Done His Own Kind of Thing

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

There are no second-place finishers—you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser—nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.

It took a great deal of force and time to deal with these barricades, and victory was elusive.

Your Success is Our Victory and a Victory is Our Success

With our instinct we can go everywhere, but with our intelligence we will get there.

The moment we are thinking something is impossible it happen to Us.

Winners don't do different things, they just do things differently+ Jan Jansen

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