Quotes About Achievement

Theres gonna be times in life when people tell you that you can't, thats when you just gotta turn around and say watch me.

There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey.

In the end you get what you deserve, the amount of effort you put in determines the amount of joy that you receive.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Thank you, God, for bringing me success in my life.

Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?