Achievement famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
-- A.J. Cronin -
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
-- Aamir Khan -
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness
-- Abdul Kalam -
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
-- Aberjhani -
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
-- Abraham Maslow -
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige
-- Abraham Maslow -
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
-- Adam Haslett -
Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
-- Adolf Galland -
Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.
-- Adolf Hitler -
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
-- Aeschylus -
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
-- Agnes Repplier -
We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.
-- Agnivesh -
I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
-- Ahmed H. Zewail -
I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
-- Al Duncan -
Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.
-- Al Duncan -
Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
-- Al Duncan -
Achievement without fulfillment "High achievement without fulfillment is a broken way of life."
-- Al Duncan -
What's wrong vs Right with you It's not a question of what's wrong with you, it's a question of what's right with you.
-- Al Duncan -
Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.
-- Al Duncan -
That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
-- Alan Lightman -
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
-- Albert Camus -
The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
-- Albert Einstein -
Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
-- Albert Einstein -
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
-- Alex Carey -
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
-- Alex Lifeson -
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...
-- Alexander Kotov -
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
-- Alfred Adler -
The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.
-- Alice Miller -
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
-- Alice Munro -
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
-- Alicia Machado -
In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.
-- Allan Bloom -
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
-- Allan Lichtman -
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.
-- Allen Steck -
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 -
Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.
-- Andre Agassi -
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
-- Andrew Sarris -
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
-- Andrew Young -
Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
-- Andrew Young -
If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.
-- Andy Irons -
Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.
-- Andy Jenkins -
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
-- Anna Garlin Spencer -
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter -
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
-- Anthony Trollope -
If it's advisable to never share own problems with others as sages say that majority don't care, then it's more sensible to never brag of own achievements as their attitude is likely to remain the same.
-- Anuj -
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
-- Arthur David Ritchie -
Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.
-- Arthur Godfrey -
Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.
-- Arvid Carlsson -
All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.
-- Asher Brown Durand -
We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting.
-- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal -
Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
-- Ayn Rand -
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.
-- Ayn Rand -
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.
-- Ayn Rand -
Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements
-- B. F. Skinner -
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.
-- B. F. Skinner -
You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.
-- Barack Obama -
This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.
-- Barack Obama -
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
-- Barry Eichengreen -
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
-- Barry Levinson -
Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing
-- Bart Conner -
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
-- Bear Grylls -
If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.
-- Ben Bernanke -
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 -
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
-- Benjamin Carson -
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
-- Bernard Lonergan -
No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
-- Bertrand Russell -
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
-- Beverly Sills -
Freedom is not an achievement but an opportunity.
-- Bhagat Puran Singh -
Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.
-- Bill Courtney -
Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
-- Bill Gates -
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
-- Bill Laswell -
God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.
-- Billy Graham
