Marian Anderson Quotes

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

Everything boils down to motivation.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

It's good to have a goal.

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.

You don't compete in something if that's not your goal, you should always want to succeed.

Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.

You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.

We want to win and make a push.

You wanna work on something big so that if you win, everybody wins, and you really have an impact on the world. And that can get you out of bed.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

If you can see it, and believe it, it is a LOT easier to achieve it

No matter what you do, you first have to have a vision... to see your goal, to believe in it, have faith in it and chase it. And then it's fun to chase it. If you don't have a goal or a vision, then you have nothing.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

You achieve what you believe in, look for, and work for.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.

Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!