achievement quotes

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Success is the child of audacity.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

I am results-oriented.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

What is once well done is done forever.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

All great achievements require time.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.