Top 100 Work Achievement Quotes
#3. In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on fulfillment in your work and perfection in achievement, you will become either inwardly deranged or outwardly unsettled.
Zicheng Hong
#4. If you want it enough, you find strength to work for its achievement.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.
Ayn Rand
#6. Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
Karen Horney
#7. If want to succeed, you must work to overcome the obstacles on your path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes
#9. Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.
Ashley Ormon
#10. A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.
K.J. Parker
#11. My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...
Alexander Kotov
#12. Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
Nelson Goodman
#13. We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.
Karen Armstrong
#15. A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
Jean Rostand
#16. A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.
Bryant McGill
#18. The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness ...
Thomas A. Edison
#20. Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible
Theodore Roosevelt
#21. We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.
Barack Obama
#22. If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.
Nelson Mandela
#23. Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today.
Wilferd Peterson
#24. In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.
Alexandra Robbins
#25. Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life
Sunday Adelaja
#26. We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
Erik Paulsen
#28. It's only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we're of any real use.
Henning Mankell
#29. What powers our work when it's no longer about addiction to achievement?
Shauna Niequist
#30. 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
#31. But my biggest joy and best education and proudest achievement has been being able to show up for work and life and not cause too much trouble a day at a time in spite of my hysterical, somewhat dramatic, nature.
Mark Vonnegut
#32. It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.
Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.
Therone Shellman
#33. [On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.
David Hilbert
#34. To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.
Alfred Smee
#35. Through hard work and responsible approach you achieve your goals
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Give yourself a deadline. Amazingly, many people work better under pressure. They are quickly moved to action when they know that they have a clock to beat!
Kevin J. Donaldson
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it.
John Patrick Hickey
#42. Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant
#43. 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
#44. You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
Marian Wright Edelman
#45. Living true to your ideal self may seem impossible but if you work hard on it, you can see it is achievable.
Auliq Ice
#47. The visible success you achieve is the result of what you have done inside you
Sunday Adelaja
#48. motivators" - things like enjoyment of the work itself, genuine achievement, and personal growth.
Daniel H. Pink
#49. Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
Earl Nightingale
#50. My work was practice, practice, practice. Discouragement and weariness cast me down frequently; but the next moment the thought that I should soon be at home and show my loved ones what I had accomplished spurred me on, and I eagerly looked forward to their pleasure in my achievement.
Helen Keller
#52. There is only one way to success, wealth and achievement and that is through a lot of hard work.
John Patrick Hickey
#53. 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
#54. In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
Jeffrey Kluger
#55. Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
Bill Laswell
#56. Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men
Amen Muffler
#57. SETH said: When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement.
Jane Roberts
#58. Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford
#59. There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
Ezra Pound
#60. I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.
Percy Cerutty
#61. Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.
Marshall Goldsmith
#62. Work, Work and work, until you either succeed in your mission, or you die!
Abhijit Naskar
#63. Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.
Robert Breault
#64. Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go
Sunday Adelaja
#67. Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
Grenville Kleiser
#70. In a highly performing team everyone achieves better than he/she would have achieved when working alone.
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.
Sandra Scarr
#72. Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.
John Stott
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.
Ken Robinson
#78. Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?
James Patterson
#79. Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.
Reince Priebus
#80. You must learn to see everything around yourself as a resources, your opportunities, and turn them into your weapons to get them working in your favor, in order to achieve your goal
Sunday Adelaja
#81. You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal
Sunday Adelaja
#82. Don't mistake activity with achievement.
John Wooden
#83. On SUCCESS: "Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers." (TM)
Nanci McGraw
#84. The dictionary defines pride as "pleasure or satisfaction in one's work or achievement." According to that definition a person needs to do something before you can be proud of them. You could not be proud of them simply for who they are. I'm not sure I know what pride in another person feels like.
Francisco X Stork
#85. Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show me that it is possible-show me your achievement-and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"
Ayn Rand
#86. Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.
Timothy Keller
#88. Celebrate every small achievement and gain strength for grandeur things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. 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
#90. Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
#92. Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.
Ellen J. Barrier
#93. Let me ... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
Woodrow Wilson
#94. Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.
Jordyn Wieber
#95. One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts
simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.
Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards
#96. Life Without Work
To do nothing
In this day and age,
When so much pointless work
Is being produced,
Could almost be considered an achievement.
It all compares most unfavorably
With my own imaginary
Body of work.
John Tottenham
#97. Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.
Ayn Rand
#98. My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.
Roger Bannister
#99. Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
James McNeill Whistler
#100. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
Adam Clayton
