Quotes About Achievements

#1. Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best in yourself and others. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.

John Wooden

#2. Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.

Gregory Of Nazianzus

#3. The dynamic nature of knowledge is reflected in human progress and technological achievements.

Eraldo Banovac

#4. We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

William J. Clinton

#5. Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols ... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

Alfred Korzybski

#6. To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person.

Common

#7. One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

Richard Hofstadter

#8. What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.

Radhanath Swami

#9. All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

Christian Bale

#10. I knew I would be running with so many people watching all over the world because of him. People love Bolt. He has many fans out there because of his great achievements and breaking world records in Olympics. I've done the same and it's a great honour. I'm happy and I'm happy for him.

David Rudisha

#11. O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly things has caused mortals to forget the the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end.

Guru Angad

#12. The genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Robert Musil

#13. Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.

Arvid Carlsson

#14. The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

Karl Kraus

#15. The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.

Peter Shaffer

#16. In the same way that ethnic Israel was the first fruits of humankind due to the achievements of their patriarchs, Christendom includes the great harvest of the faithful because of Jesus's merits.

James Mikolajczyk

#17. I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Carl Rogers

#18. In order to protest ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can.

Sheryl Sandberg

#19. For the substance of our existence is not in achievements, but method

Brandon Sanderson

#20. Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.

Sarah Harrison

#21. A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

Eyvind Johnson

#22. Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#23. You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually?

Ayn Rand

#24. The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

Vladimir Putin

#25. Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.

Kevin Focke

#26. He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Gottfried Leibniz

#27. Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams ... their demons

Eliza Granville

#28. I am so old that I can remember when other people's achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.

Thomas Sowell

#29. Being near you for a day was at the top of my bucket list of the greatest life achievements, so this has by far exceeded my expectations and everyday has been magic.

Crystal Woods

#30. Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in

Octavius Black

#31. What I've accomplished for myself is beyond my wildest dreams. What I accomplished for my country is one of my most proud achievements.

Li Na

#32. A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden

#33. The true wealth of a nation is not their natural resources but their achievements in education.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Do not trust everyone who smiles at you;
some admire your achievements,
but some misunderstand them,
and many more envy them.
Jealousy is like the sky:
everywhere on everyone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see: We are the proud parents of a child who's self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn't need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.

George Carlin

#36. 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

#37. Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#38. All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Napoleon Hill

#39. We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

George Steiner

#40. Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Chris Evert

#41. I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#42. As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Mary Lou Retton

#43. Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.

Don King

#44. He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.

Kenny Cunningham

#45. I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.

David Amram

#46. Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Michael Gove

#47. The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

Benjamin Jowett

#48. If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Mason Cooley

#49. In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.

Tobias Dantzig

#50. As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Marty Meehan

#51. Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

Jim Rohn

#52. Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs ... many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#53. History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way.

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

#54. It seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

Orson Scott Card

#55. God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

Dillon Burroughs

#56. Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

Samantha Stosur

#57. The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

Richard Attias

#58. The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

Kenneth Clark

#59. Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Robertson Davies

#60. Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

John C. Maxwell

#61. It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

Alex Carey

#62. The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#63. Records and achievements are made to be broken.

Yogi Berra

#64. My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...

Alexander Kotov

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David Rusenko

#66. The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.

Paul Tillich

#67. The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.

Milton Friedman

#68. At the heart of all of mankind's achievements is imagination.

R.L. Matthies

#69. I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Aleksey Igudesman

#70. 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

#71. All the great coincidences and marvelous achievements of his life disappeared in a flash. In their place were puppet strings. 'A

Hugh Howey

#72. This is a book about notable achievements made while dead.

Mary Roach

#73. Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.

Bill Courtney

#74. I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements.

Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

#75. We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

Karen Armstrong

#76. Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

Stephen Richards

#77. We should get rid of these restricting attitudes and system of beliefs in order to remove obstacles in our way to the achievements of our goals and revealing our potential

Sunday Adelaja

#78. History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.

Stephen Spender

#79. The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

Hannah Cowley

#80. We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

Helmut Schoeck

#81. The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.

Jose Mujica

#82. While one of the lasting achievements of feminism is to re-establish the link between household labor, reproductive labor and paid labor, capitalism has to perpetually pretend that the world of politics has nothing to do with the home.

Nina Power

#83. Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

Bob Woodward

#84. If s/he is intimidated by your achievements so far, s/he shouldn't be in your future because s/he cannot handle what is coming...

Assegid Habtewold

#85. Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.

Frederick Herzberg

#86. To completely analyse what we do when we read would almost be the acme of the psychologist's achievements, for it would be to describe very many of the most intricate workings of the human mind

Margaret J. Snowling

#87. 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

#88. It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.

Michael Jackson

#89. In addition to earthly achievements, these amazing people realized the ultimate achievement: living the life God designed for them. All

Wendy Pope

#90. For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

Jim Al-Khalili

#91. And now, As I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if I am asked how we should account for the unusual prosperity and growing strength of this nation, I would reply that they must be attributed to the superiority of their woman.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#92. Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

Frederic Goudy

#93. Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Ann Bancroft

#94. I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

Bill Paxton

#95. The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

Jan Peter Balkenende

#96. The achievements of certain disadvantaged groups (Jews, say) and the continued struggles of others (for instance, blacks) led to pernicious assumptions about the stuff each group was made of. Those who found a way to emerge from the ghetto were said to possess the correct cultural values.

Anonymous

#97. Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

Derrick A. Bell

#98. Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.

Propertius

#99. But all men die
as anonymously as they had lived, no matter what their achievements.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#100. The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

Alice Miller