Achievement Quotes

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your me...

Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and co...

First set a strong and clear inner voice and then do all that you want to achieve and the door will ...

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(Fr...

When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. ...

Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attain...

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain o...

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but...

Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touc...

She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing it...

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But b...

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they ...

He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If ...

We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few work...

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and ...

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement...

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonish...

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a...

If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every livin...

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy a...

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward s...

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards ...

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child wash...

The roughest roads often lead to the top.

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...

There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either...

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was jus...

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. Howe...

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it i...

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep try...

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. Th...

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is de...

She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achiev...

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything bett...

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill o...

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing ...

It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always kee...

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the ...

Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer....

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out o...

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think y...

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already d...

Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done H...

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual ...

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and ...

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human ...

In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the...

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It i...

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.

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

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the...

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over ...

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one ...

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are.  Our worldly power results from our p...

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth ...

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with you...

Long is the road from conception to completion.

You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, yo...

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once ...

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire...

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she ...

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not s...

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achi...

That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this p...