Achievement Quotes

When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life.

Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

Don't mistake movement for achievement.

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

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.

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.

What the mind can believe, you can achieve.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

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.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

The house praises the carpenter.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

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.

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.

Goal achievement is hero's work.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals.

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?