Achievement Quotes

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

~ Lin Yutang

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

~ Vauvenargues

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

~ Winston Churchill

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

~ Bertrand Russell

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

~ David Lloyd George

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

~ Peter F. Drucker

Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done Has earned a night's repose.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.

~ Elbert Hubbard

There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.

~ Louis Dudek

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

~ Orison Swett Marden

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

~ Napoleon Hill

I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.

~ T. J. Miller

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

~ Zane Grey

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

~ James Allen

Integrity is critical to our lives - and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.

~ Jon Huntsman

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

~ Naveen Jain

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

~ Bo Jackson

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

~ Fredric Jameson

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

~ C. S. Lewis

Without failure there is no achievement.

~ John C. Maxwell

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

~ Orison Swett Marden

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

~ Thomas Haden Church

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

~ Richard Thompson

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

~ Warren Farrell

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

~ Neil Armstrong

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Space station is, it really is one of the more, if not the most, impressive technological achievement of the modern day, not only in what we've accomplished engineering-wise but what we've accomplished on this international scale, because anybody will tell you that half the challenge is making it all work.

~ Kevin A. Ford

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

~ Charles Kettering

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.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

~ James Henry Breasted

We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.

~ Wendy Kopp

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

~ Allen West

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

~ Herbert Croly

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

~ Ayn Rand

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

~ Ayn Rand

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

~ Elizabeth Bibesco

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

~ Virat Kohli