Quotes About Achievement

In school, you're getting a grade. Whenever you're getting a grade for something, you always feel slightly pressured.

An oft-heard exclamation in teachers' lounges and school conferences is: "If she'd only try harder, she would do better." In fact, the opposite is true. In actuality, If she only did better, she would try harder.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

There is no correlation between the degree of comfort enjoyed and the achievement of a civilization. On the contrary, absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

philosophical tenet basic to SEALdom. That concept is: if you set your mind on a goal and your spirit is the spirit of a Warrior, the word impossible DOES NOT EXIST.

Richard Marsh

Truly it is said, that knowledge is chief of all things, my son. It allows us to see clearly what we may achieve. Conjecture is no substitute for fact.

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)

Llegué con cincuenta años de adelanto», dice Ben Johnson con un tono tan satisfecho como triste. «Yo era capaz de hacer lo mismo que hace hoy en día Usain Bolt. La velocidad a la que él es capaz de correr en estas pistas tan rápidas de hoy en día es la misma a la que podría haber corrido yo». Y lo repite, «Llegué con cincuenta años de adelanto. ¡Cincuenta años!». Lanza una carcajada, la misma que lanzaría ante una broma pesada.

whatever you do - his father continued - dream big, take risks, and work harder than whoever else is doing the same thing. Do you know why I've succeeded? not because of talent, I've known writers more gifted than I am. But I was driven to wring every molecule out of whatever talent I possessed. Success is not something you aspire to, you have to grab it by the throat.

Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

How different South Africa's cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord's sunshine.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights

Procrastination is the thief of dreams

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.

In most cases, true greatness is a silent and lonely affair, unaccompanied by the trumpeted fanfare of acclaim.

One day McKenna got hot enough