Quotes About Achievement

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

Once you relize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

Athletes are very cool to me.

Offer her a hand when she slips, applause when she soars.

Reginald Hill

It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I'm really just a dilettante. I've lived, explored, and worked - but only in nonjobs. I've often achieved success against all the predictions. And I've done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.

ÄŒlovÄ›k by mÄ›l chodit na hory jen se sobÄ› rovnými.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, no matter how virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

Man is a successful animal, that's all.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Ne t'attarde pas à l'ornière des résultats. ( Don't linger in the rut of success )

Blessed are the people who are living dreams they didn't know they had. Dreams they never dreamed. Dreams that came to life because they followed their intuition

Au travail, le plus difficile, c'est d'allumer la petite lampe du cerveau. Après, ça brûle tout seul.

I just celebrated my thirtieth birthday. Ten years late, but I did it.

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

And as for proof—how can a man ever be certain? Certainty, surely, is beyond human grasp. But however that may be, it is usually the case that glory comes to those who act, not to the over cautious and hesitant. Only by great risks can great results be achieved." —Herodotus, The Histories, book seven.

Don't dwell on reality it will only keep you from greatness.