Achievement Quotes

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

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

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

The only failure is not trying.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

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.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

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.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

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

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

All great achievements require time.

Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing the answer to the secret. The sage said simply: "Stretch out your hand and reach what you can." "No, it can't be that simple," the seeker said. And the sage said softly, "You are right, it is something harder. It is this: Stretch out your hand and reach what you cannot." Now that's vision.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It is not the critic who counts

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

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

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.