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Achievement Quotes
"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
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"I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight."
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"And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement."
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
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"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."
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"That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight."
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"His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish."
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"Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody."
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"For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed."
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"Success doesn't just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit and ingenuity."
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"The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board."
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"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole."
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"It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed."
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"To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain."
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"You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record."
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"I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it."
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"When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do.It becomes you. Greatness becomes you."
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"A person who could withstand such dreadful insults from his or her enemies can have the ability to reach his or her potentials by becoming socially, educationally and economically successful."
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"The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement."
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"Become great through the currency of time."
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"Among physicists, I'm respected I hope."
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"Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement."
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"Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached."
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"A successful person's life is made up of a time when he gets out of bed, and a time he goes to bed; and in-between them is filled up with a time that he makes sure something definitely happened!"
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"Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it."
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"Seek wisdom, and success will find you."
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"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
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"Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor."
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"The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it."
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"Touch of Ability with Action can never be lost in the journey of life."
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"I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting."
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"The world will never know you because you did not drain all your potentials to the last drop."
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"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
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"When we desire and hope for excellence and take action we become what we desire."
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"Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day."
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"I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing."
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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means you developed endurance, perseverance and will-to-win as a core part of your character."
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"Darlin', I wasn't just a Boy Scout, I was an Eagle Scout."
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"Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value."
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"I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars."
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"Whatever you can dream and believe, you can achieve."
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"A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to."
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"Take one step towards excellence, and success will take ten towards you. Take ten steps towards excellence, and success will take a hundred towards you. Take a hundred steps towards excellence, and success will take a thousand towards you."
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"No man has been rewarded world's richest man for sleeping away his every day and night."
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"Your Crystal Clear vision should provide you a glimpse of a new universe and turn your excuse for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of resources for success."
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