Achievement Quotes

2338 Achievement quotes by 1374 unique authors

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live… — Brooks Atkinson
I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it. — Percy Cerutty
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. — Agnes Repplier
Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort. — John F. Kennedy
A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking… — Richard Posner
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal… — John Searle
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to… — Ralph Raico
Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with… — Sri Chinmoy
One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done,… — Og Mandino
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought… — Lewis Howard Latimer
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road… — Charles Kettering
The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on… — Dag Hammarskjold
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement — Unknown Author
Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals — Spencer W. Kimball
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself — Robert Foster Bennett
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these… — Austin Phelps
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been… — Jacob Bronowski
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not… — Shelby Steele
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing… — Shelby Steele

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