Achievement Quotes

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

~ Ayn Rand

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone, change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could wait for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by waiting for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me Cinderella is a perfect example to be but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.

~ C. Joybell C.

If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.

~ Bill Bryson

Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

~ Criss Jami

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

~ Albert Einstein

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

~ Harry Truman

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

~ Ronald Reagan

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

~ Criss Jami

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

~ William Faulkner

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

~ Norman Vincent Peale

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

~ Napoleon Hill

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

~ Napoleon Hill

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

~ Criss Jami

One of the problems with teaching is that there's a temptation to evaluate what we do in the classroom based on how clever it aligns with a larger philosophy , or even how gratifying it is to use not necessarily how effective it is...

~ Doug Lemov

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness.

~ Criss Jami

If you drop your beliefs, you drop your success. God's mighty people begin to fall even as achievers when they begin to drop the beliefs they pursue at first.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

~ Sydney J. Harris

Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

~ Criss Jami

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

~ Brandi L. Bates

Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement.

~ Fadi Hattendorf

Titles does not make a man. But the grace of thanks.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.

~ Will Advise

Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life – it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do not be complacent about your achievements and not to strive for continual improvement when you get to the top. As soon as you let success go to your head, you sink into following familiar patterns and play it safe. In other words, you risk losing your edge.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

~ Dorothy Parker

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.

~ J. Cornell Michel

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

~ Suzy Kassem

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.

~ George Alexiou

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.

~ Rodolfo Costa

Because it's worth dreaming and expecting the best from you and others, because once you fulfill your dreams you can make other people happy as well.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it's to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where working hard at it makes you happy, and where you're happy to work hard at it.

~ Tom Fletcher

Happiness is not the Achievement of Dreams.It is the Path to Dreams.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor