Quotes About Achievement

Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable, you

Early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

I bet Eli doesn't even have one touchdown today, ... I'm the best Manning

It took me 17 years to get 3000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." —HANK AARON

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

On the flip side is Woody Allen's nebbish observation: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Companion words include mischief and bonchief, a bad result and a good result, respectively

Nothing succeeds so much as success.

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

That's why at the start of every season I always encouraged players to focus on the journey rather than the goal. What matters most is playing the game the right way and having the courage to grow, as human beings as well as basketball players. When you do that, the ring takes care of itself.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

success is an enemy to the losers of the day

use one or both of your pictures

No writer ever truly succeeds. The disparity between the work conceived and the work completed is always too great, and the writer merely achieves an acceptable level of failure.

Richard's first day at school was not as a joyous time in the Ramirez household as the other children's had been. None was doing well in school. Joseph and Ruth got by and stayed out of trouble, but Ruben and Robert were always in trouble, getting failing marks and getting into fights.

With money you were a succesful man, without it you were a failure.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

As a man of sense never at?tempts impossibilities, on one hand, or the other, he is never discouraged by difficulties: on the contrary, he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.

I have been struck by how important measurement is to improving the human condition," Bill Gates wrote. "You can achieve incredible progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal….

You can achieve incredible progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal….This may seem basic, but it is amazing how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

History has been so fascinated with Alexander the Great that it has overlooked the genius of his father. But by his supreme skill at diplomacy, his mastery of intrigue, and his revolutionary innovations in warfare, Philip laid the foundation for everything his son achieved. Yet

At the end of my third year as a full-time student, when I won a $750 prize, I immediately went to a BMW motorcycle shop in the Eighties on the West Side and bought a used BMW R69 500-cc motorcycle, all black and, though used, in great shape.

It's not the destination it's the glory of the ride.