If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.
When I was 20 I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young you want everything to happen now. As you mature you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
It is not by muscle speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved but by reflection force of character and judgment.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?
The real goal should be reduced government spending rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East there can be peace.
Today hundreds of millions dwell in freedom from the Baltic to the Adriatic from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU alongside Nato who made that happen.
In South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.
They can gas me but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
Hitler was so modern in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not at one time or other find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ambition inspired and success achieved.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.
As far as my dreams go all I want to do is be a working actor and I happily achieved that.
In my lifetime I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously I've seen many dreams shattered egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.
Having achieved my own dreams I want to give to kids who are less fortunate who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.
We used to talk about wanting to get some money but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.
Without fullness of experience length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.