Quotes About Achievement

There is nothing to regret with a job well done.

My dad speaks a lot of sense and keeps me grounded. He'll watch me play and, if I've done well, he'll have a quiet word with me and say, 'Well done.' If I've had a not-so-good game, he'll let me know about it.

While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.

Money is always an indicator of a job well done.

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.

One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'

If you haven't gotten a raise in the past couple years for a job well done, it might be time to ask for one.

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.

You know that the world is a better place when people can come up to a severely disabled person and say: 'Well done. You are an inspiration.'

There have been 700 or 800 songs I've written over the last 60 years, as I went through different periods of writing. I listen and marvel at how different they are and how they still stand up. They are very well done, if I must say so.

If you're lucky enough to get into a Premier League or Championship team straight away, well done to you, but I feel really grateful for the experience that I had at the lower end.

You see people with a room full of their career achievements. Brilliant. Well done. That's just not something I do. They're in a bin bag in my mum and dad's loft.

The best encouragement is when your films run and people who watch it say 'Well done.'

I used to walk down a street and nobody would notice me. Now, I get stopped all the time; people saying, 'well done'. It makes me really, really proud to have done my bit to help make cycling a little bit more popular.

For all that Zidane has done for the national team, you have to say 'Thank you and well done.'

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.

Coming from a small South Dakota school, it was a different route to get to the NFL. I went from South Dakota State to the World League of American Football with the Amsterdam Admirals, and fortunately I did well enough there that the New England Patriots decided to sign me and give me a chance.

I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.

When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

That's all you ever want - to do your job well enough that people on the other end are happy.