Quotes About Achievement

A dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. —Vince Lombardi, pro football coach

The elevator to Health, Happiness, and Success is "out of order." You'll have to use the stairs, one step at a time,

I'd netted a bachelor's in English from Boston University, but it had done less for me, in strictly financial terms, than the eight-week course that earned me a commercial driver's license.

If you Google "How do I write a book?" you'll get a million hits, but here's the dirty secret: It's just math. It's not even hard math—it's first-grade addition. Write three pages a day, every day. In a hundred days, you'll have three hundred pages. Type "The End." Done.

At the end, I get to be the person I always wanted to be," she thought.

Jude did not flip them off and then drove for a few blocks feeling good about himself, proud of his restraint. His will, it was like iron.

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

raise? He was outstanding in his field.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

You've gotta work hard to stay on top, and when you stop wanting to work hard, you just become average. That happens to anyone.

You take whatever victories you find in this game, and you measure success in the smallest of increments.

You only live once but if you work it right once is enough

I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

When you win nothing hurts.

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

In our beautiful memory We were all handsome. We all could sing. We all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in town. And we all hit .300.

Pujols was a 13th-round selection by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1999 draft. Thirteenth-round draft picks rarely make it—I do not say this lightly. Since the first year of the draft, only 13 percent of all 13th-round picks have made it to the big leagues at all, and less than 8 percent have posted even one win above replacement.