Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

If you work hard and play by the rules this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement of wisdom of refinement with the democratic ideals of openness of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Lord bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

You must accept responsibility for your actions but not the credit for your achievements.

If you call failures experiments you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

If you're trying to achieve there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it.