Top 100 Quotes About Achievement
#1. Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.
Nicki Chapman
#2. I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
Steven Spielberg
#3. Even the greatest of painters cannot produce, however strenuously he exerts himself in pursuit of variety, more than 12 or 13 individual masterpieces. So it is natural that mankind should marvel at God's astonishing and singlehanded achievement in the production of people.
Soseki Natsume
#4. Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden
#5. I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Margaret Spellings
#6. I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#7. Without making the actual attempt, without trial and strife, there can be no true knowledge, no progress, no high achievement, and no legend.
Brendon Burchard
#8. Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
William Arthur Ward
#9. The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.
Robert G. Allen
#10. Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.
Michael O'Leary
#11. The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.
Paul Murray
#12. How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of one's purse.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
#13. Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Will Durant
#14. The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic
Scott Belsky
#15. Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, now it is a problem to be overcome.
Garrison Keillor
#16. He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It would take him a lifetime to appreciate what an achievement that was.
Richard Flanagan
#17. 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.
Herbert Croly
#18. Kindness is the best wisdom. Simplicity is the best achievement.
Debasish Mridha
#19. An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.
Henry Louis Gates
#20. Personal power depends on the power of imagination; personal achievement depends on commitment and conviction.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.
Julie Andrews Edwards
#22. On every birthday, when I wake, I now take out the old Nagan, load it with one bullet, spin the chamber and pull the trigger with the barrel in my mouth. I've cheated death nine times. It is my greatest achievement. And three months to go to my next birthday. I can't wait.
Eddy Shah
#24. I think one should forgive and remember ... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.
Faith Baldwin
#25. I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.
Donald O'Connor
#26. To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.
Gustav Ejstes
#27. Never give in to the obstacles that lie in your path towards the achievement of your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing
Bart Conner
#29. Enjoy memories of the past, cherish every moment of present and focus on your future achievement
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#30. Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
Henry Rollins
#31. Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.
Rajneesh
#33. The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#34. I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.
Augusten Burroughs
#35. Everyone on this planet is a wonder of this world. Every one of us is a hero in some way or another. Every one of us has the potential for extraordinary achievement, happiness and lasting fulfillment.
Robin S. Sharma
#36. Did is a word of achievement,
Won't is a word of retreat,
Might is a word of bereavement,
Can't is a word of defeat,
Ought is a word of duty,
Try is a word each hour,
Will is a word of beauty,
Can is a word of power.
Ann Landers
#37. 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
#38. The Founding Fathers and our fathers are rolling over in their graves as this great country voluntarily abandons its dreams of equal opportunity, achievement and prosperity and sows the seeds of its own destruction.
David Limbaugh
#39. Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
Thomas Mann
#40. Just because you ... achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.
Lysa TerKeurst
#41. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.
John C. Maxwell
#42. Our progenitors, our educational systems, the land, the media, the way have deluded and misled the masses: they have been defeated by the aridity of the actual dream. they were unaware that achievement or victory or luck or whatever the hell you want to call it must have its defeats.
Charles Bukowski
#43. Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant
#44. 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
#45. I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
Natalia Vodianova
#46. Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Powell Clayton
#47. It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.
S.A. Tawks
#48. Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
Thomas Carlyle
#49. Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.
Italo Calvino
#50. Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.
Suzy Kassem
#51. There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.
Frederick Lenz
#52. In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.
Nelson Mandela
#53. Postponing action is only postponing achievement.
Rick Pitino
#54. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge
#55. I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.
Katrina Kaif
#56. In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
Brandon Sanderson
#57. I still think 'The Lord of the Rings' is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn't wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written.
Christopher Lee
#58. We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
Erik Paulsen
#59. It is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
John G. Kemeny
#60. We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.
Alain De Botton
#61. There seems to be an attitude problem, as if we cannot shake ourselves out of a mindset of limited achievement.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#62. With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.
Sonia Sotomayor
#63. 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
#65. Don't mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it's no different from children running around the playground - everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.
John Wooden
#66. If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.
Brian McDermott
#67. The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.
Susan Cain
#69. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.
Ayn Rand
#70. And the spectators must not be allowed to see too much. President Obama has set new standards in safeguarding this principle. He has, in fact, punished more whistle-blowers than all previous presidents combined, a real achievement for an administration that came to office promising transparency.
Noam Chomsky
#71. Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.
Melina Kanakaredes
#72. 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
#73. Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.
Henning Mankell
#74. Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.
Hunter Hayes
#75. 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
#76. 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.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#78. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement.
Rick Yancey
#79. 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
#80. Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength.
Norman Cousins
#81. It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.
Martin Amis
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both original and highly exemplary.
Dean Keith Simonton
#85. Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.
Philip Yancey
#86. The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.
Dean Koontz
#87. It struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
John Keats
#88. Johnson saw preoccupation with principle and procedure as a sign of impotence. Such men were "troublemakers," more concerned with appearing forceful than in exercising the real strengths that led to tangible achievement.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#89. Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.
Dale Carnegie
#90. There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
Loretta Young
#91. Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
Charles Stanley
#92. The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.
John Prescott
#93. It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
Randy Bachman
#94. The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It's not going to sink in for a while.
Rory McIlroy
#95. 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
#96. What powers our work when it's no longer about addiction to achievement?
Shauna Niequist
#97. Individualistic cultures, which emphasise achievement over affiliation,
Anonymous
#98. In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.
Tom Landry
#99. The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
Wallace Stevens
#100. I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Saul Bellow
