Exceptional Achievement Quotes

Cristiano Ronaldo loves scoring goals. Only HE can achieve what he's achieving.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.

Excellence is the name of the game.

I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.

In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.

Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

I've done things that people in this league will never do.

I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.