Achievement Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Donald Trump

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey

All great achievements require time.

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

Nothing will work unless you do.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

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

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Dame Agatha Christie

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard P. Feynman

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
Janis Joplin

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.
Ellen DeGeneres

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Herodotus

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Maria Montessori

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The only success worth one's power was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.