Quotes About Achievement

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

No pressure, no diamonds.

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.