If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Life is what we make it to be; can be other people’s life or it can be our special one. The difference is that the first we sit and watch and basically we know the...

Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning…for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.

I like “multi-“…multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Our school funding crisis has real impacts on student achievement.

Trust what you know; have faith in where you go; if there’s no wind, row; or go with the flow.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for...

In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.

Sometime in the future, when business slumps and there appears to be no solution in sight, you will hear others moaning about and blaming the things that are completely out of their control, wasting hour...

If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you.

Success-minded people must understand that we cannot arrive at our destination the same as we left. Just as things will be different, you too must be different.

A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins...

If I was to become No 1 again, that would be my greatest achievement of all.

You are an achiever, aim high.

When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get...

Can you remember when you finished primary, how about when you passed matric, graduation day, your learner’s & license, getting your first salary slip and the most valuable of them all; having your first child,...

Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind.

Struggling is hard, so is achieving success; so you may as well choose success, over time it’ll seem easier.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since...

Don’t deny your parents a chance at happiness and also an opportunity to see you achieve greatness.

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have...

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Its been enough enjoying now, let’s begin achieving.

Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.

I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.

It feels great to know that whatever you need to achieve your dreams are in you. Whatever the spider needs to make a cobweb is not in the housefly. Look to yourself; you have what...

Perhaps you have been wondering about how you will win the tournaments of life. This is an important moment of your life. Just know where your goals are. Dress in the jersey of action and...

Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.

Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.

And by making that plan you have differentiated yourself from more than ninety percent of the population. You are one of the few, who has a clear direction, a decisive plan of action.

Our attitude will determine what we will strive for, whom we will be, and how our life will turn out.

The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift...

You don’t cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty soon nobody’s going to shove you anymore because they’ll see it’s not worth it.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.

Do precedes done.No precedes none.

Everybody starts small. We all begin life as a single cell. Every business starts as one person with an idea. How fast you go, how far you get, is in your hands. The bigger your...

Success-minded people need to understand that the best way to learn is to ask questions and listen for answers.

This is a major achievement which will reverberate through our museums, galleries, auction houses and in the homes and hearts of those families who may now have the chance to have returned what is rightfully...

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a...

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.

First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately… and no one will forget.

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

Guy’s record of public service and his achievements speak for themselves.

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it...