Achievement Quotes

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

~ Bo Bennett

The Swimmer's Advantage:1)Your goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get you there.2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head above the water. 3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead. 4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Riches are not only measured by money but the wisdom and knowledge you possess.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

~ Ilona Mialik

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet—no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with the boy, not the astronomer.

~ Mark Twain

Stressful conditions from outside school are much more likely to intrude into the classroom in high poverty schools. Every one of ten stressors is two to three times more common in high poverty schools-- Student hunger, unstable housing, lack of medical and dental care, caring for family members, immigration issues, community violence and safety issues.

~ Robert D. Putnam

He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky's First Concerto - or the last movement of Rachmaninoff's Second. Men have not found the words for it nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the music. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Not servants nor those served; not altars and immolations; but the final, the fulfilled, innocent of pain. Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers --- show me yours --- show me that it is possible --- show me your achievements --- and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

~ Ayn Rand

You can do the required-work by grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Consciousness set goal independently, achieves them through will and evaluation of results

~ Sunday Adelaja

The adjuration to be normal seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of normal to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.

~ Karl Menninger

Amateurs are fond of advising that all practical measures should be postponed pending carrying out detailed researches upon the habits of anophelines, the parasite rate of localities, the effect of minor works, and so on. In my opinion, this is a fundamental mistake. It implies the sacrifice of life and health on a large scale while researches which may have little real value and which may be continued indefinitely are being attempted… In practical life we observe that the best practical discoveries are obtained during the execution of practical work and that long academic discussions are apt to lead to nothing but academic profit. Action and investigation together do more than either of these alone.

~ Ronald Ross

Your achievements and success are dependent on a well thought through plan of action.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I don't enjoy talking about what I am going to do. I prefer just letting folks just find out what I've done.

~ #Name?

On GOALSETTING: I don't enjoy talking about what I am GOING to DO. I prefer to let folks find out what I've DONE.

~ Nanci Mcgraw

Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

~ Alan Alda

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

~ Felix Bloch

There is no limit to what you can achieve, if you believe you can.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You need your Anger to fuel youYou need your Rage to control youand you need your Heart to constrain youOnce you have achieved that, you will be the closest thing to an Immortal Invincible being, that has Ever walked upon this earth.

~ Faruk Dml

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High.But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the hero of your generation.

~ Amit Kalantri

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the same thing whether the lights belonged to a caravel battling the swell on a stormy horizon or a diamond-hulled starship which had just sliced its way through interstellar space.

~ Alastair Reynolds

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear

~ Ayn Rand

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire...They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear.

~ Ayn Rand

I believe that we are all born for greatness yet most of us mire in the mediocrity of life. We become complacent or worse, discouraged and stagnate. We damn ourselves by not progressing.

~ Toni Sorenson

It’s not one of our finest hours.

~ Brian Cook

Don’t limit yourself by what you’ve achieved. All your past achievements are only stepping stones for the greatness to come.

~ Lashawnda Jones

Scars can mark you for greatness.

~ Amy Neftzger

Legacies are not just for legends. Whether a million people know your name, or only one person does, you still have the right to leave your mark on the world, even if it’s only in your tiny corner of it, in the tiniest of ways.Not all of us will achieve great heights and feats. Most of us will never leave our hometown or country, let alone conquer Everest. And you know what? That’s okay. Because real life is what happens in between moments of greatness. It’s the little things that at the end of it all, you realize were greater than the sum of their parts. It’s the amount of times you laughed, or cried, danced, sang, created, inspired, and made someone smile.The best kind of legacies are the ones that are unseen. You’ll never fully be able to measure the effect of a smile or a kind word, but I promise you, the most whispered phrase can send a shockwave around the world that lasts for centuries, or even an eternity.

~ A.j. Compton

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

~ Dan Pearce

Seek and achieve GREATNESS instead of mere success

~ Fela Durotoye

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

~ Susan Sontag

A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.

~ Amish Tripathi

Your inner positive self demands that you keep surprising yourself with extraordinary achievements.

~ Hafiz

One can only be constantly envious of other people's achievements through idleness, because true dreamers are too focused on their goals and dreams to be worrying about other people's business.

~ Hafiz

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

~ John Gardiner

No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita