Achievement Quotes

Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

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

The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.

People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.

The quality of the article should be its greatest achievement.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

Once you see a child's selfimage begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle.

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are.

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

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.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

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.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.

I now hope the Arsenal fans can get on with their lives and forget me, they should celebrate their third-place achievement and I will focus on winning titles.

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

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

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.