Quotes About Achievement

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

Life is a race; desire the goal.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

a dream can be the highest point of a life

Anybody who thinks I'm taking this fight for a paycheck doesn't know me. My whole life I've been achieving the impossible.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.