Achievement Quotes

2338 Achievement quotes by 1374 unique authors

I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches… — Denton Cooley
If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done… — David Murray Cowie
In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by… — Karl Pearson
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 such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear… — Herbert York
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave… — Charles Kettering
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… — Ayn Rand
There is no short cut to a place worth going. — Beverly Sills
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness.… — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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… — Aung San Suu Kyi
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and… — Eric Hoffer
Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights… — Peter Drucker
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution… — Samuel Smiles
Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. — Will Durant
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a… — Rose Kennedy
Think nothing done while aught remains to do. — Samuel Rogers
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. — Bertrand Russell
Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or… — John Eliot
If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious. — John Eliot
Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them. — John Eliot
Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally. — John Eliot
High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances. — John Eliot
It was an utterly phenomenal achievement. — David McCullough

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