Achievement Quotes

2338 Achievement quotes by 1374 unique authors

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still… — Joyce Carol Oates
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you… — Barack Obama
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. — George Orwell
I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get… — Michael Palin
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. — Blaise Pascal
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. — Joe Paterno
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. — Norman Vincent Peale
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute… — Ross Perot
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. — Tom Peters
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater… — Steven Pinker
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. — Robert Plant
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement. — Robert Plant
The most positive men are the most credulous. — Alexander Pope
It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour… — Lucy Powell
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it… — Steve Prefontaine
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the… — Vladimir Putin
I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your… — Ayn Rand
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. — Ayn Rand
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality… — Herbert Read
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. — Tom Robbins
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and… — Tony Robbins
Whatever happens, take responsibility. — Tony Robbins
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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