Quotes About Achievement

Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D - one of the great, great bands of our time.

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

Whether you aim to lose 20 pounds or you want to launch your own business, mental strength is the key to long-term success. After all, you need fierce determination and tenacity to reach your greatest potential.

My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother was a mentor by showing me an example to say that if women have tenacity, they can achieve whatever they have to.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

You must never get carried away by your success; many people tend to do so after they achieve success in the initial stages of their life. Your feet must be on the ground all the time.

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.

It's funny: what one tends to think of as the best work you've done is not what other people think is the best you've done.

I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

Hopefully, I can keep growing as a player and have my number retired at Tennessee and in the NBA one day.

Tennis has been a part of my life since I was five years old.

I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.

This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.