Achievement Quotes

When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America,' and for me, that was an achievement.

~ Stelios Haji-Ioannou

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

~ Katharine Anthony

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

~ Aamir Khan

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

~ Nelson Goodman

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

~ Harold Taylor

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth it's a shield.

~ Brené Brown

It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

~ Steven Johnson

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

~ Nas

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

~ Bo Bennett

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

~ Dianne Feinstein

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

~ Charles Stanley

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

~ Jimmy Carter

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

~ Ben Stein

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

~ Ibrahim Babangida

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

~ Nicholas M. Butler

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

~ Napoleon Hill

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

~ Dale T. Mortensen

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

~ Juliette Gordon Low

In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

~ E. O. Wilson

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

~ Henry Petroski

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

~ Winston Churchill

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

~ Melina Kanakaredes

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

~ Loretta Young

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

~ J. G. Ballard

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

~ Elle Macpherson

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

~ Noam Chomsky

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

~ Ahmed Zewail

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

~ Robert H. Schuller

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

~ Sebastian Vettel

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

~ Oscar Hammerstein Ii

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

~ Denise Van Outen

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

~ David Millar

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

~ Paul Henderson

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

~ Napoleon Hill