Top 82 Past Achievement Quotes
#1. All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
Napoleon Hill
#2. I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.
Ichiro Suzuki
#3. Don't limit yourself by what you've achieved. All your past achievements are only stepping stones for the greatness to come.
LaShawnda Jones
#4. Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.
Lewis Mumford
#5. - I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.
- I believe that dreams can become reality.
- I believe in true love.
- I believe in kindness and intelligence.
- I trust life, regardless.
Elysse Poetis
#6. Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
Walter Lippmann
#7. Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.
Robert Gordis
#8. We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
Wendy Kopp
#9. To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end ... THIS is achievement
Neil Patel
#10. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.
Des Browne
#11. To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.
Olly Murs
#13. Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
Caroline Knapp
#14. All energy given to us for the achievements of goals and self-actualization is instead spent on deriving acceptance from our surroundings and compliance with the requirements of the society
Sunday Adelaja
#15. To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
George W Truett
#16. I tend to worry about each "emergency" or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life - everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#17. Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!
Gerry Lindgren
#18. Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement provides for his own psychological growth and thereby his happiness.
Frederick Herzberg
#19. I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.
Konstantin Stanislavski
#20. It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.
John Patrick Hickey
#21. You must learn everything that will help you achieve your goals
Sunday Adelaja
#22. It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.
Michael Jackson
#23. If you've loved the life you've lived, who can take that away from you?
Marty Rubin
#24. 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
#25. Enjoy memories of the past, cherish every moment of present and focus on your future achievement
S G
#26. One of my greatest failures:
I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.
One of my greatest achievements:
I have learnt to ignore my futureless past.
Munia Khan
#27. I'm in no hurry. What for?
The sun and moon aren't in a hurry: they're right.
Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,
Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.
No; I don't know how to hurry.
Alberto Caeiro
#28. Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.
Amelia B. Edwards
#29. I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.
Eva Hoffman
#30. 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
#31. I'm glad I'm still in motion. I don't think of my past achievements. The most important thing is what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm happy I did what I did. Thanks be to God.
Manu Dibango
#32. Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
Bruce Lee
#33. 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
#34. I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov
#35. More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.
Karl Taylor Compton
#36. Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output
Richard Posner
#37. Your only competitors are your past achievements.
James Cameron
#38. Forget your past,
Use your pain;
Accept that pain,
And Achieve the gain.
Nitesh Nishad
#39. For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.
Daniel Quinn
#40. Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made.
Auliq Ice
#41. It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.
Terry Rossio
#42. Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs
drive the sap
downward and up again: and almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#43. 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
#44. What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Norman Vincent Peale
#45. So remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
Leo Tolstoy
#47. Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
Virat Kohli
#48. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
Jack Kornfield
#49. The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.
Eckhart Tolle
#50. We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.
LeCrae
#51. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#52. Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
Margaret Mead
#53. Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
Napoleon Hill
#54. Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot.
Wayne Gretzky
#55. Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace ... .
James A. Murphy
#56. Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
Bryant McGill
#57. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
#58. Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.
Bruce Lee
#59. Achievers are not scared to make mistakes or to fail because they are willing to learn from them. They are determined to start all over again and again until they grasp the concept.
Euginia Herlihy
#60. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
#61. The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
#62. 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
#63. We are successful
the moment we start toward
a laudable goal
J. Benson
#64. The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.
James Cook
#65. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#66. You'll never get it if you can't see yourself having it.
Toni Sorenson
#67. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.
Tina Fey
#68. Often, it is such negative thoughts and negative self affirmations that cripple your self confidence. No one is to say how long it will take you to reclaim back your self-esteem but what remains constant, is that the journey towards that achievement must start now!
T. Whitmore
#69. Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
Alexander Von Humboldt
#70. When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.
Roz Savage
#71. Clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect.
Khaled Hosseini
#72. The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
Daisaku Ikeda
#73. Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!
Orison Swett Marden
#74. It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
Carl Jung
#75. We may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Because
Bill Bryson
#76. A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
Douglas Merrill
#78. Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
Bertrand Russell
#79. A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.
Sara Sheridan
#81. The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#82. Our body is the vehicle that we are given for our journey and if we do not take care of it, we will find ourselves broken down on the side of the road facing costly and time-consuming repairs.
John Patrick Hickey
