Quotes about Achievement

Our ability to achieve success depends on the strength of our wings gained through knowledge and experience. The greater our knowledge and experience, the higher we can fly.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Whatever you've imagined your limits of strength and daring to be, the strongest woman in the world can inspire you to go beyond them. That's what champions are for.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

That which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains.