Reaching Goals Quotes

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

I read an article in Forbes entitled 'Six Ways To Achieve Any Goal,' and it really inspired me and helped me get to where I am today. Now everything is completely different - but I'm still not satisfied.

I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage.

Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

My entire life, people have told me that I couldn't do certain things. They told me I couldn't go to college. They told me I couldn't go to Yale, Georgetown, couldn't end up doing much on Capitol Hill. Couldn't be party chair. And my response has always been, 'Watch me.'

Success is always less funny than failure.

I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I didn't scrabble my way to the top. I just scrabbled my way to the middle!

I want the title. But these hands are working hands, and sometimes you've got to get them dirty.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

It's about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.

I personally think if something's not a challenge, there's no point doing it, because you're not gonna learn much.

Our first No. 1 was 'Why' and we waited two years to have another one. It felt like forever, and now I feel like I'm celebrating one every few months, which I love.

When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' - instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

I know people always say to get out of your comfort zone and take risks, but when you are on a live national television show, and you are competing to stay on it, then I don't think you should be uncomfortable up there. I think you should sell it and be your own best self.

If you've not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that's when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

It's cool to see all your dreams come to fruition.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

I might have done around 100 films but still I have to be successful.

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.