Achievement Quotes

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

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.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Even though it'll never be flat again, my stomach is my favorite part of my body because it reminds me of my greatest achievement - my babies.

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.

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

I love to see people win. You can literally see a person change through achievement on this emotional and spiritual level.

Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

Being is the basis of thinking, thinking is the basis of action, action is the basis of achievement and achievement is the basis of fulfillment.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want

Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.

Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.

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.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

I think he [Sir Alex Ferguson] may have even surpassed the achievements of Matt Busby for Manchester United.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.