Quotes about Achievement
The Olympics had never really been on my agenda. I had been a huge sports fan growing up, But it never really occurred to me that I would have a chance to participate.
— Tim Henman
This sport is so tough so it's nice when you go run a sprint car and go win a race.
— Kyle Larson
For me to have my little stamp on the sport, of course it's special.
— Caeleb Dressel
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
— Ellen White
There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.
— Drew Houston
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
— Ronald Reagan
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
— Oscar Wilde
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
— Mark Twain
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
— Ellen White