Top 84 A Great Achievement Quotes
#1. Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.
Rickson Gracie
#2. We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.
Laszlo Nemes
#3. We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
B.F. Skinner
#4. Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.
Zicheng Hong
#5. Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads.
Ryan Giggs
#7. When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn't a part of building it; I wasn't a carpenter in creating that juggernaut.
Johnny Galecki
#8. It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something.
Zach Braff
#9. One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.
Francis Crick
#10. To be accepted by others is a small achievement.
To accept yourself is a great achievement.
To be accepted by God is the greatest achievement.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. When I say "our," I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black person, just like a great achievement by an Anglo American is less important.
Wynton Marsalis
#12. Over twenty men died during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Dr Lynch. Does anyone regret that? No, all anyone sees is a marvel of its time, a great achievement in human ingenuity.
Matthew Reilly
#13. The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#14. We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
Lamar Alexander
#15. Happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
Francoise Sagan
#16. To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.
George Mikes
#17. I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
Buzz Aldrin
#18. I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.
Harrison Salisbury
#19. To participate in a World Cup is a great honour and achievement. I've played in three World Cups. The whole world watches you during a World Cup and expects you to play innings to win games for your country.
Virender Sehwag
#20. A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
Louis Kronenberger
#21. Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.
Bill Bryson
#22. There has been a great challenge in improving educational achievement. It's a long-term issue, not a short-term one. It includes everything from getting more parents involved to addressing issues of poverty and improving what happens in the classroom.
Julian Castro
#23. Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
Oscar Wilde
#24. Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#25. The leader is the bell ringer, the trumpet blower, the drum beater, the vibration maker, and the vision caster ... A great leader imparts the burden, inspires commitment, and sets the pace for achievement of God's purpose.
Phil Pringle
#26. There is a wonderful power that comes when you know that someone will achieve something great due to your help.
John Patrick Hickey
#27. Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
Dale T. Mortensen
#28. That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
Arthur David Ritchie
#29. But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.
Howard Schultz
#30. Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
Bill Gates
#31. To be a great achiever you must have a desire, a will to live and determination to push through no matter what.
Euginia Herlihy
#32. Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.
Robert K. Greenleaf
#33. You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.
Muhammad Ali
#35. All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed
Pat Cash
#36. The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.
James Allen
#37. Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.
Geoffrey Howe
#39. No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#40. Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.
Mary Kay Ash
#41. Heard Ori Kam and was deeply impressed with his achievements as a violist. His technical and interpretive skills are truly unique. I see a great future for him.
Itzhak Perlman
#42. Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Ben Stein
#44. There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'
Roy Hodgson
#45. 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.
Willard Libby
#46. If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill
#47. No matter how great an achievement you had a year ago, no matter how momentous and critically acclaimed it was, it is still in the past and has no real bearing on the present moment.
Chris Matakas
#48. Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
William Feather
#49. The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.
Harry S. Truman
#50. I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.
Morgan Llywelyn
#51. My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.
Lionel Sosa
#52. I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.
Alan Bennett
#53. The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.
Robert Breault
#54. Great achievements are nothing more than a collection of small accomplishments.
Justin Young
#55. Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name ... Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#56. I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
Charles Kuralt
#57. And why is Grant so solemn today upon our great achievement, except he knows this unmeaning inhuman planet will need our warring imprint to give it value, and that our civil war, the devastating manufacture of the bones of our sons, is but a war after a war, a war before a war.
E.L. Doctorow
#58. The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.
Maynard Webb
#59. We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.
Fredrik Bajer
#60. There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness,
health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities
waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good.
Jim Rohn
#62. If there is one thing I know, it's that with every great achievement in our lives, there is an insecure idiot hiding around the corner waiting to take a baseball bat to it.
Dan Pearce
#63. Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple
truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your
most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the
key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in
life.
Brian Tracy
#64. True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.
Nur Sakinah Thomas
#65. Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward De Bono
#66. This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.
Kenneth Clark
#67. Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.
Nicholas Roerich
#68. The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young
a human activity which developed late.
Sigmund Freud
#69. There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.
Gerard Butler
#70. One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.
Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera
#71. Two things are necessary for great achievement: a plan and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
#72. Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
Orison S. Marden
#73. Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading.
Mortimer J. Adler
#74. I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
Mike Huckabee
#75. One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
Og Mandino
#76. It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace
#77. I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still
Zig Ziglar
#78. Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.
Nyanaponika Thera
#79. Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.
Ryan Phillippe
#80. We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
Swami Vivekananda
#81. Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty ... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Theodore Roosevelt
#82. Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.
Charles M. Schwab
#83. 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 othe human race.
Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
#84. A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance ... Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
Pierre L. Van Den Berghe
