Quotes About Achievement

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

A victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.

I used to have visions of flashing lights and red carpets.

History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality.

I used to have visions of being a star all the time, but I never knew I wanted to be a rapper.

'Britain's Got Talent' just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I'm able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I'd visit - Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places.

Mom only gets angry when I don't visit her enough. She raised six kids to be 100 percent independent and work for everything we achieve. I mean, we don't expect anything for free.

I want people who visit my Instagram account to realize how hard I've worked for everything I have now.

I have completed 23 years in the industry. All these years, I never managed to visit the Lalbaug pandal.

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that.

Visiting Spain does not excite me as much as making my parents proud does.

I was living with my mom in a tiny apartment in Chula Vista, near Third and H Street behind the 7-Eleven. It was crazy to be on the phone with Stevie Wonder. I felt like a meteor hit our apartment!

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

Year-end goals are terrific! Affirmations with goals are even better! And goals, affirmations, along with visualization is even more effective!