Quotes About Achievement

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.

You've got to earn respect as life goes on.

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

I respect Everest very much.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone.

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.