Achievement Quotes

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out o...

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think y...

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already d...

Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done H...

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual ...

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and ...

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human ...

In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the...

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It i...

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

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

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over ...

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one ...

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are.  Our worldly power results from our p...

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth ...

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with you...

Long is the road from conception to completion.

You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, yo...

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once ...

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire...

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she ...

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not s...

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achi...

That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this p...

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. Americ...

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ...

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no ...

She felt vulnerable and alone and had a sense that a great opportunity was slipping through her fing...

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exac...

Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only ...

People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what ...

I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' an...

Good is not good where better is expected.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostil...

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hosti...

There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level....

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To ...

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

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

The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity w...

Good is not good where better is expected.

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ab...

The only way round is through.

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

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the off...

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Good is not good where better is expected.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stru...

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff...

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

The thing is, incremental daily progress (negative or positive) is what actually causes transformati...

It is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. ...

Good is not good where better is expected.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, bec...

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Great things in business are never done by one person,They are done by a team of people

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us...

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have...

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Good is not good where better is expected.