Quotes About Achievement

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Whatever good things we build end up building us

the medals no one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most.

I had this real hardass for a tutorial in grad school,' Jeannine finally said. 'And this one time when I told him that maybe my project hadn't panned out because it had been too ambitious, he said that he'd always thought that the moral of the Icarus story was not 'Don't try to fly too high.' He said he thought it was 'Do a better job on the wings.

great legacy starts with a great life, and every great life starts with a great plan.

If we focus our efforts and energy on doing our work instead of getting out of our work, everyone wins.

Being the B.E.S.T.

Being productive is an essential element of happiness

what makes the great motivators so, well, motivating is their ability to help others find their own personal motivation every day. It is that personal motivation that inspires people to have a vision of what they want to achieve, work hard and prepare well so they have not only a clear direction in sight, but also the actual wherewithal to get where they want to go.

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

When people talk about "success" It's just an unfair standard that they created to apply to people in their own league

As Christopher Reeve once said, so many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Life is a quest to find out how much better you can be and higher you can go.

Wilma was amazed that she, a sixteen-year-old high school girl, had a chance to be a part of the Olympics

I touch the fuzzy letter I. The pins he's earned for varsity and captain. This is what we care about. How many pins we have. We want to be MVPs. The most valuable of all. What's so wrong with that? It's stupid, Beth would say. That's what's wrong with it.

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.