Quotes about Achievement

Believe, really believe, you can move a mountain, and you can. Not many people believe that they can move mountains. So, as a result, not many people do.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.

What one does in one's club is what determines whether one gets called up for the national team.

The positive side of willpower is the power to do and to frame all of your I won'ts as being in the service of those higher I wills. Once you do that, you're no longer using your willpower to oppress and disappoint half of yourself. You're using it to create the future self that you really care about. Thus, willpower is really just being as kind as you can to the man you want to become.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.

I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.

It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.