Quotes about Achievement

You may not accomplish every goal you set—no one does—but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you achieve, that is most important.

Shoot for the moon- and if you don't get what you want, you'll still be among the stars. By making big plans and working for them, you change. You become somebody else. So even if you fail and don't get what you planned, you're somebody else. You'll say, "That's ok, I'll go do this other terrific thing.

We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to human kind.

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

In my opinion, sport teaches valuable lessons in extremely rewarding circumstances.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

If you think, you can become successful and you are willing to learn and work at success, one day you will become successful.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.