Achievement Quotes · Page 42

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and…

— James Taylor

“Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Great achievements are nothing more than a collection of small accomplishments.”

— Justin Young

Sometimes in order to achieve your dreams you forget to enjoy the journey of life.

— Sushan Sharma

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.

— Adam Cohen

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

— Harold Taylor

“little of consequence is ever accomplished alone. High achievement is nearly always a joint effort,”

— David McCullough

I never feel proud of my work and say that this is my biggest achievement.

— Arvind Swami

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big…

— Florence Scovel Shinn

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not…

— Alain de Botton

In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think…

— Noam Chomsky

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic…

— Ayn Rand

Wired gave 'Duke Nukem Forever' the first Vaporware Award, and then the next year it won No. 1 vaporware again, and then…

— Randy Pitchford

When I look at a magazine and I see Kate Winslet, I will buy it because Kate lends it a sense of…

— Dervla Kirwan

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest…

— Clifford Geertz

We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother,…

— Shirley Temple

The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.

— Derek R. Audette

You have to understand the fact to achieve anything requires faith and belief in your dreams and yourself.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

— Sangharakshita

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

— Confucius

“Everything we need in life is always around us but we miss them because we look afar and not around us.”

— Tandoh Dadzie Eddy K

“You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

— Jack Kornfield

Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

— Pierce Brosnan

“If talent is the floor and character the ceiling, then work-ethic is the altitude of personal achievement.”

— Orrin Woodward

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

— Bear Grylls

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some…

— Adrian Tomine

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

— Anonymous

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

— Saul Bellow

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

— John C. Maxwell

I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling.

— J. R. Simplot

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

— Sharon Shinn

It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement

— David Wolfe

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much

— James Allen

“The sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.”

— Ayn Rand

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

— Brian Tracy

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

— Rumi

“The rewards of tomorrow are safely hidden in the belief of never quitting and not giving up on yourself today”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.

— Felix Dzerzhinsky

To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.

— Samuel Chadwick