Achievement Quotes

“When you have a great team, you can do amazing things.”

“To be an Olympic champion is something that is earned, not given.”

“I have given the city a festive image. We have Taste of Chicago, we have ChicagoFest, we have all the neighborhood fests.”

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”

“You're going to Hollywood!”

“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”

“I always believe that if you want to achieve something, you have to work hard for it.”

“The Oscar is the most precious thing in the world to me.”

“I had wanted to go to the Pole, and I had gone. What I had not fully realized was that the going was only the beginning.”

“Self-made men are the glory of our institutions.”

“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it.”

“It destroyed me. When I saw it on the board, I felt like I was going to have a heart attack.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”

“It was a supernatural jump.”

“If you have a discipline that is rigorous and that you can make progress in, that's what's important.”

“Being nominated for an Oscar is a great honor. It's the pinnacle of what you can achieve as an actor.”

“No great man is born in a moment. No great achievement is accomplished overnight.”

“It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.”

“My biggest thrill was winning the Heisman Trophy.”