Achievement Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

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

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Life is short. Be of use.

A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

Education is inoculation against disruption.

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

Clarity breeds mastery.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.

Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.

I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement

Technical achievement without vision is only craft.

I'm so disappointed at what's being written and said about Anil Kumble ... He's been around for over 18 years and his achievements do all the talking.

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

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.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.

Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.