Achievement Quotes

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

Great performers welcome pressure.

Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

The value of actions lies in their timing.

That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.

With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.

What I've accomplished for myself is beyond my wildest dreams. What I accomplished for my country is one of my most proud achievements.

Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work - but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen.

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish things that we might never have achieved without such undeserved praise.

No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It's one of the human race's most shining achievements. It's called a conversation.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

Real change isn't measured with words, it is measured with real achievements.

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

There should be momentum created for achievement of goals by 2022. When we celebrate the 75th anniversary of freedom we should achieve targets

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.