Achievement Quotes
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale.)
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watson)
Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement (Quote by - John Hope)
With your entire 'focus' on your goal, you will reach levels of achievement that you never thought possible. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. (Quote by - Robert Collier)
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. (Quote by - Frederic Chopin)
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody. (Quote by - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. (Quote by - Otto Rank)
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. (Quote by - H. L. Hunt)
Never mistake activity for achievement. (Quote by - John Wooden)
What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden )
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation. (Quote by - Michael Lewis)
Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. (Quote by - Edmund Hillary)
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances (Quote by - Bruce Barton)
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement. (Quote by - Paul Tsongas)
People have a tremendous capacity for outstanding achievement. There are also many extraordinary capacities that allow them to become high achievers. (Quote by - Steve Brunkhorst)
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. (Quote by - Gabriel Heatter)
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. (Quote by - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer)
Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement. (Quote by - Robert Vaughn)
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success. (Quote by - Bo Bennett)
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. (Quote by - Bo Bennett)
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. (Quote by - Adam Ant)
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement. (Quote by - Charles J. Givens)
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a questions he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
If you're insincere, it's manipulative (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated. (Quote by - Mack R. Douglas)
Achievement brings its own anticlimax. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. (Quote by - William Safire)
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. (Quote by - David Bailey)
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. (Quote by - Roger Bannister)
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. (Quote by - Wilma Rudolph)
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth. (Quote by - unknown)
Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit. (Quote by - Hugh Nibley)
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. (Quote by - Candace Bushnell)
My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda. (Quote by - Donald Walters)
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr )
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. (Quote by - E. O. Wilson)
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement. (Quote by - Mikhail Saakashvili)
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people. (Quote by - Gustav Krupp)
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. (Quote by - Dr. Theodor Reik)
Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. (Quote by - Mitt Romney )
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
Destiny is not a 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. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. (Quote by - Willard Libby)
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. (Quote by - Unknown)
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins )
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. (Quote by - Max Euwe)
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records. (Quote by - Richard Thompson )
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me. (Quote by - Alicia Machado)
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius. (Quote by - Henryk Sienkiewicz )
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. (Quote by - Gordon Parks)
You have to do what others won't. To achieve what others don't. (Quote by - Unknown)
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin )
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation. (Quote by - Rick Rubin)
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. (Quote by - Ethel Barrymore)
The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community. (Quote by - Gary Cooper )
The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement. (Quote by - Harry Lauder)
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. (Quote by - James Allen)
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement. (Quote by - Leo J. Muir )
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. (Quote by - Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.)
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. (Quote by - William Sharp)
Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committee for an animal adapted to communities without water.. it was a divine consensus. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration... and expectation. (Quote by - Jack Nicklaus)
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. (Quote by - Margaret Spellings)
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. (Quote by - Kurt Lewin)
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world. (Quote by - Edward William Bok)
Every teacher has to learn the lession. (Quote by - Jaymie Meyer)
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. (Quote by - A. P. Gouthey)
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. (Quote by - Napolean Hill)
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. (Quote by - Alice Koller)
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation. (Quote by - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board. (Quote by - James S. Coleman)
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. (Quote by - General Dwight David Eisenhower)
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. (Quote by - Margaret Spellings)
My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by. (Quote by - Kim Smith)
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. (Quote by - Conrad Hilton)
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. (Quote by - Eugene Delacroix)
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts (Quote by - James Allen)
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids. (Quote by - Bo Jackson)
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. (Quote by - Bruce Marton)
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. (Quote by - Muhammed Iqbal)
One point of view gives a one dimensional world. (Quote by - Liz Murray)
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. (Quote by - Mike Ditka )
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. (Quote by - Earl Warren)
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. (Quote by - Edgar Lee Masters)
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. (Quote by - William Blake)
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. (Quote by - Shirley Chisholm)
His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. (Quote by - Jonathan Larsen)
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. (Quote by - Kenneth Clark)
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. (Quote by - Phyllis Schlafly)
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race. (Quote by - Ernest L. Woodward)
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years. (Quote by - Steve Pavlina)
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself. (Quote by - Martin Bashir)
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. (Quote by - Michelangelo)
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally. (Quote by - J. Philippe Rushton)
It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. (Quote by - David Rockefeller)
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar )
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. (Quote by - Henry Drummond)
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. (Quote by - General George Smith Patton, Jr.)
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
The only way around is through. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. (Quote by - Zane Grey)
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. (Quote by - Epictetus)
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality (Quote by - Carl Jung)
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. (Quote by - Frederick Pierce)
Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. (Quote by - George Fabricius)
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music. (Quote by - Bill Laswell)
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. (Quote by - Ben Stein)
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. (Quote by - Muhammed Iqbal )
I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal. (Quote by - Gavin DeGraw)
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
All great achievements require time. (Quote by - David J. Schwartz)
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. (Quote by - Ibrahim Babangida )
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. (Quote by - Arthur Holly Compton)
It's no use saying, 'We are doing our best'. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment. (Quote by - Richard J. Daley)
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. (Quote by - Helen Hayes)
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. (Quote by - James S. Coleman )
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. (Quote by - Florence Scovel Shinn)
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose. (Quote by - David Livingstone )
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. (Quote by - Bo Bennett)
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. (Quote by - Les Brown)
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. (Quote by - Hu Shih)
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. (Quote by - Unknown)
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. (Quote by - Paul J. Meyer)
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. (Quote by - Douglas)
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. (Quote by - Claude M. Bristol)
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. (Quote by - Harold Wilkins)
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
I think my greatest single achievement took place on a Tuesday in March, when, with much bribery and corruption, I got them to clear the Grand Canal. That was truly Wagnerian. (Quote by - Tony Palmer)
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. (Quote by - Ovid)
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. (Quote by - Leonard Bernstein)
It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people. (Quote by - Karen Carpenter)
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Quote by - Charles Kettering)
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. (Quote by - Robert Bork)
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms. (Quote by - Alex Lifeson)
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. (Quote by - Oscar Hammerstein II)
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (Quote by - Francis of Assisi)
A Hero is one who hangs on one minute longer. (Quote by - Unknown)
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. (Quote by - Adam Clayton Powell)
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. (Quote by - Walter Legge)
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. (Quote by - Gian-Carlo Menotti)
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. (Quote by - Nelson Goodman )
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. (Quote by - Niccole Machiavelli)
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden )
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. (Quote by - Eric Butterworth)
As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud. (Quote by - David Trimble)
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. (Quote by - David Feherty)
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. (Quote by - Loretta Young)
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. (Quote by - Michael Korda )
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. (Quote by - Jonas Salk)
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. (Quote by - George Lucas )
Press on- nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. (Quote by - Alan Shepard )
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. (Quote by - Robert H. Schuller)
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. (Quote by - Aristotle)
We will either find a way, or make one. (Quote by - Hannibal)
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. (Quote by - Louise A. Bogan)
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. (Quote by - Anna Garlin Spencer)
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements. (Quote by - Benjamin F. Fairless)
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty. (Quote by - Heber J. Grant)
My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren. (Quote by - Marilyn Horne)
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough! (Quote by - Shel Silverstein)
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. (Quote by - Aldo Leopold)
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. (Quote by - Morarji Desai)
To be free is to have achieved your life. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams )
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. (Quote by - Marquis De Vauvenargues )
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. (Quote by - Herbert Croly)
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. (Quote by - John Maxwell)
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct. (Quote by - Barry Levinson)
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement. (Quote by - Brian May)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Quote by - Confucius)
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important. (Quote by - Elle Macpherson)
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. (Quote by - Frank Clark)
Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry. (Quote by - Dinah Shore)
Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. (Quote by - Brooks Hays)
Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us. (Quote by - Guy Finley)
Your have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. (Quote by - William Hastie)
There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. (Quote by - Louis Dudek)
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. (Quote by - J. G. Holland)
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession. (Quote by - Florenz Ziegfeld )
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. (Quote by - Theodore Isaac Rubin)
People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. (Quote by - Katharine Anthony)
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. (Quote by - Thomas Haden Church)
Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based. (Quote by - Polykarp Kusch)
So much to do, so little done, such things to be. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up." (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts. (Quote by - Coleman Cox)
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement. (Quote by - Fay B. Nash)
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement. (Quote by - Warren Farrell)
At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. (Quote by - Etta James)
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. (Quote by - Ross Perot)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. (Quote by - Harold Taylor)
Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me. (Quote by - Sheena Easton)
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. (Quote by - Nicholas M. Butler)
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. (Quote by - Max Beckmann)
Now, 0 for 50 would be a historic achievement on any other team, but on the Cubs it is usually called September. (Quote by - Bernie Lincicome)
Let each become all that he was created capable of being. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. (Quote by - Abdul Kalam)
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. (Quote by - Vash Young)
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve.I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive. (Quote by - Virginia Wade)
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. (Quote by - Confucius)
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. (Quote by - Brian Ferneyhough)
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people (Quote by - Nido Qubein)
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. (Quote by - Cavett Robert)
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. (Quote by - Mario Andretti)
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Big thinking precedes great achievement. (Quote by - Wilferd A. Peterson)
