Achievement Quotes

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.

True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

There is no achievement without risk.

Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.