Achievement Quotes

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Comfort is the enemy of achievement.

There is always joy in achieving ,but the greater satisfaction lies in sharing the achievement.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

Your only competitors are your past achievements.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.

So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.

Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

I hate failure and I am in love with achievement.