About Achievement Quotes

#1. To me, it's always what's next and I think that's what drives most very successful people. It's never about the money. I mean that's a way of keeping score. It's about achievement and it's about winning a game and it's about upping the ante.

Donny Deutsch

#2. Art is not about achievement, but rather a new perspective to look from.

Armin Houman

#3. Equality is about achievement: whoever achieves the most gets treated the most equal.

Snoop Dogg

#4. I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

Jack Canfield

#5. Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle.

Herbert Hainer

#6. It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

Gloria Steinem

#7. Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

Ken Blanchard

#8. Life's not about money. Look at achievements, accomplishments . It's about having fun. It's about enjoying life.

Mike Ditka

#9. I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.

Vijender Singh

#10. I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.

Satish Kumar

#11. One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band.

Robbie Robertson

#12. In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

Barry Schwartz

#13. Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you'll rebuild your life in a few short years.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#14. There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

Jane Leavy

#15. This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

Allen West

#16. I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing
I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

Dara Torres

#17. I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion. What I'm saying is that it actually works, which is something you can say about very few other aspects of the medical establishment.

Dave Barry

#18. Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.

T.D. Jakes

#19. One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.

Agnes Martin

#20. But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Joseph Rotblat

#21. What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of guilt about the achievements of Western civilization - everywhere nurtured the catechism of established opinion.

Roger Kimball

#22. The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

William Hazlitt

#23. It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement ... The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.

Grantly Dick-Read

#24. I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

Jake Ellenberger

#25. You are a divine, irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind soul, and there is no other achievement, title, or role that is more meaningful than that. Your qualities and attributes and how you treat other people are the only thing about who you are that really matters.

Kimberly Giles

#26. 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.

Kim Smith

#27. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgment, and shame.

Brene Brown

#28. We feel happy when we accomplish something great, and our hearts filled with satisfaction about what we achieved

Abdulkareem Bkar

#29. When one is at the edge and falls then it's a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that's what's life is about.

Amit Abraham

#30. I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Alan Shepard

#31. When you are so obsessed with identity politics it's not healthy because you're constantly worried about how you're perceived as opposed to your achievements. Once your identity becomes your achievement then you run into serious problems.

Greg Gutfeld

#32. Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

Naveen Jain

#33. The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

Dominique De Villepin

#34. Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.

George Alexiou

#35. What powers our work when it's no longer about addiction to achievement?

Shauna Niequist

#36. Remember: it is not about what happens to you, but what you choose to DO WITH what happens to you that truly defines who you are.

Alexandra Silber

#37. 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.

Brian May

#38. Don't be too obvious about it.

Auliq Ice

#39. Do not postpone your happiness to "achievement" of goals.
It is not worth postponing your happiness, even for a moment ...
Learn to "be happy" first, and then go about achieving your goals ...

Manoj Arora

#40. The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

Dean Koontz

#41. We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

Alain De Botton

#42. 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.

Goswami Kriyananda

#43. If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Sivananda Saraswati

#44. When you stop complaining about others for not helping you and focus on your efforts; there's no stopping you.

Udai Yadla

#45. Some people are just crazy about something while others are lucky enough to get that.

M.H. Rakib

#46. I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

Margaret Spellings

#47. Look here, my boy, if you have average intelligence, about half the things you do are bound to be right, which is a fair achievement for any career. Don't spend sleepless nights over them.

R.P. Noronha

#48. The researchers summarized: "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.". Long ago, Buddhists reached much the same conclusion.

David Michie

#49. The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.

Nelson Mandela

#50. I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.

LeBron James

#51. Honestly, people always talk about 'normal' as though it is something to aspire to, but that's a load of crap. Normal isn't an achievement, it's a baseline. Normal is something you end up as if you never get around to doing something interesting.

Joseph R. Lallo

#52. We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force ... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

Wendy Kopp

#53. The only thing man has never done is what he hasn't thought about.

Richmond Akhigbe

#54. The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Criss Jami

#55. Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge

Derric Yuh Ndim

#56. Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement.

Michael Leunig

#57. That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

Scott Hamilton

#58. The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.

Simon Spurr

#59. It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#60. The key to success is having no qualms about failure.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#61. In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It's about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.

David Beckham

#62. It's tremendously important how you get on with the other sex. Your life record on that is incredibly important. You never really think about any of your other achievements.

Martin Amis

#63. Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

Eknath Easwaran

#64. Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#65. Life will always have a different plan for you. If you don't give up, you will eventually get to your destination. But towards the end of your life, you may look back and realize that it was never really about the destination; it was the journey that counted.

King Samuel Benson

#66. As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

Brad Sherman

#67. Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Andrew Young

#68. The animals have desire, or appetite. But only humans have the ability not merely to desire things, but also the creative will to take responsibility for that desire and bring about the achievement of it. That creative ability resides in the nature of God, and he has passed it on to us.

Henry Cloud

#69. But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.

Stefan Zweig

#70. There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

Michelle Obama

#71. On GOALSETTING: "I don't enjoy talking about what I am GOING to DO. I prefer to let folks find out what I've DONE.

Nanci McGraw

#72. If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.

John Patrick Hickey

#73. Because of the way I've made my money or the way I've conducted myself in public to get success, it doesn't make me any better a person. So I always thought money and achievement would make me a more legitimate person, where my family seems to think it's all about actions.

Jim Jefferies

#74. Collective achievement, of course, is less appealing both to the participants and to those later reading about it as the human impulse is to look for the heroes and villains.

Matthew Restall

#75. The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.

John Hume

#76. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

Lois Lowry

#77. I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.

Hannah Kearney

#78. Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.

Matthew Syed

#79. The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Argus Hamilton

#80. Excessive talking about our plans and dreams lessens our energy to do what is needed to achieve them.

John Patrick Hickey

#81. What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

Derek Bok

#82. I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

Maira Kalman

#83. All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

Henry Mitchell

#84. It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.

Greg Gutfeld

#85. How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

Celestine Sibley

#86. No one knows their ultimate ceiling for achievement, so worrying about it is a waste of time.

Gary Keller

#87. One concept of activity, the modern one, refers to the use of energy for the achievement of external aims; the other concept of activity refers to the use of man's inherent powers, regardless of whether any external change is brought about.

Erich Fromm

#88. What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement.

Susan Cain

#89. Life is all about conflict. The pursuit of happiness - that's life, not the achievement. It's all about the journey, my friend.

Michael J. Sullivan

#90. Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.

Ryan Phillippe

#91. I'm so disappointed at what's being written and said about Anil Kumble ... He's been around for over 18 years and his achievements do all the talking.

Sachin Tendulkar

#92. What about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Rose Macaulay

#93. Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.

Shannon L. Alder

#94. Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!

Victoria Addino

#95. I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.

Bill Cosby

#96. The states that have large in-migrations of Hispanics are Florida, Texas and California. And Florida and Texas are way above average in educational achievement, while California's the lowest, just about.

Arthur Laffer

#97. Man's most important achievement is not about standing up and start walking but, standing up to speak the truth.

Sukant Ratnakar

#98. For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.

Daniel Quinn

#99. Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.

Malcolm Gladwell

#100. Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs ... in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.

Jean Hanff Korelitz