Achievement Quotes

Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.

I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.

I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It’s the most important achievement.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.

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

But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Achievement is its own reward

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.

Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.

True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.