achievement quotes

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Big results require big ambitions.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I have goals.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.