Quotes about Achievement

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

I don't really like talking too much about myself, but I have this feeling that it's all clicking for me. It's all coming together.

I could see myself coaching at the high school level, but I'd really love to coach at UCLA. That would be a dream for me.

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young'un.

Competition brings out the best in everybody.

Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, no matter how virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).