Achievement Quotes

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.

~ Robert K. Greenleaf

I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

~ Dara Torres

You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you leave your dreams on your pillow, you might as well just stay in bed. To make dreams come true you’ve got to get up and take action.

~ Toni Sorenson

Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams

~ Sunday Adelaja

Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s when you start not just following a dream, but living it that your life seems no less than a heaven.

~ Taranpreet Singh

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It is better to experience temporary discomfort to achieve the dream, than permanent comfort without any fulfillment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only limit to what you can achieve is the limit you set for yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Stay focus to fulfill your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation in the world: ‘Come, and everything will be given to you.’ She said: ‘Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

~ Nicolas Sarkozy

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

~ Phyllis Schlafly

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Whatever you have not strived hard to achieve will not strive hard to fade. Success built on hard work is the kind that lasts longer.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Stop being okay with the norm, seek to transform.

~ Constance Chuks Friday

With God, the word ‘impossible’ is itself impossible.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Why does humankind love to seek the glory of one another instead of the glory of God?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Go on your way , use you brain , be innovative, achieve your dreams and don’t turn back, because you left so many envious people behind you !! …

~ Ibnoulkhatib Yahya

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

~ Ashish Patel

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

~ Ashish Patel

Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he’d contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]

~ Guy Gavriel Kay

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

~ Frédéric Chopin

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it.

~ Suzy Kassem

A Man of wisdom is one who discusses everything other than his achievements, a Fool speaks only of his achievements

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

~ Stanley Wolpert

Achievement was worth of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest greatness of all still belonged to the Roman Republic itself

~ Tom Holland

Impossible? Utopic? Sure! But for how long? Can any human endeavor be eternally impossible or utopic ? A time factor should be integrated to every affirmation of utopia, or else the people affirming that would only be affirming that they are not the ones who can make it happen.

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

~ Glenn T. Seaborg

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.

~ Wisława Szymborska

The human worker will go the way of the horse.

~ Wassily Leontief

If you want it, work for it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A vivid - if somewhat melodramatic - firsthand description of what deliberate practice can feel like comes from dancer Martha Graham: 'Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to the paradise of that achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration. There are daily small deaths.

~ Angela Duckworth