Achievement Quotes

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best… — Wilferd Peterson
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more… — Ayn Rand
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with… — Richard Hofstadter
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. — Alfred Adler
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. — Gabriel Marcel
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. — Robert K. Greenleaf
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. — Henry Petroski
The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It… — Stephen Covey
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also… — Milton Friedman
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that… — Stephen Covey
Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity… — Woodrow Wilson
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount… — Walter Russell
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. — Alexander Graham Bell
'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying… — Thomas Kuhn
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,… — Albert Einstein
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it… — Lewis Thomas

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