Achievement Quotes - Page 2

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.

Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers.

You must hiss at people who intend to undermine your individuality with their false pride and intellectual stupidity. You must frighten them away, lest they should do you harm. Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

Go on your way , use you brain , be innovative, achieve your dreams and don’t turn back, because you left so many envious people behind you !! …

The real battle is within yourself.

Your darkest fears are the veil between you and your brightest rewards.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

Dream the impossible.See the invisible.Pursue the intangible.Achieve the incredible.

Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.

Amateurs are fond of advising that all practical measures should be postponed pending carrying out detailed researches upon the habits of anophelines, the parasite rate of localities, the effect of minor works, and so on. In my opinion, this is a fundamental mistake. It implies the sacrifice of life and health on a large scale while researches which may have little real value and which may be continued indefinitely are being attempted… In practical life we observe that the best practical discoveries are obtained during the execution of practical work and that long academic discussions are apt to lead to nothing but academic profit. Action and investigation together do more than either of these alone.

Why does humankind love to seek the glory of one another instead of the glory of God?

If a man realizes who he is, he understands that if he must, he can start from the beginning and achieve success again

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

People are not born with any entirety. With the time we take to achieve it. For it requires concentration and willpower.

Hard work is the key to any achievement.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

At the end of life, your reward in heaven will not be proportional to the role you played on earth, but how faithful you played it. Be faithful in every little role you are to play; it'll lead you to a greater reward! Faithfulness is key!

I have known many who led their fighters to titles, and some who took them right to the end of the rainbow. I have found, however, that destiny controls the passes to these places, and I keep telling myself, trying to believe it, that it is not important, really, how far you go but how you make the trip.

Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

You must be intentional and decisive about what you want to achieve during your solitude time.

Achievement requires a strong will, failure, a stubborn won't.

If thousand people say you can't, and you alone believe you can, you will make it happen! But if million people say you can, and you alone believe you can't, you can't make it happen. It all depends on you!

The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.

I would rather aim high and miss the mark than low and make it.

If the only thing I did for the rest of my life was treat others kindly, file manila folders, and sit on the porch watching the grass grow it would be enough. It had to be. I did the math. The number of people who actually achieve a significant legacy is trifling compared to the vast number who go from birth to death living relatively unremarkable lives (at least on the surface). And maybe that wasn't the failure I'd been conditioned to believe. Maybe there was something to be said in praise of an outwardly unremarkable life. Maybe there were deep everyday forms of magic that had nothing to do with profound acomplishments or a Twitter feed that resonated down through the ages.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller units of work.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

You will be influential and powerful in the field of your gift and talent

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

​Let the lotus of your character be full-blown and the results will follow.

Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Once you “believe” that you can do it and do take the first step forward, stop doubting yourself.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Your motivations--get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office--aren't impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on. An individual's goals figure prominently in the theories of personality first developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. According to his successor David McClelland, what Friedrich Nietzsche called "the will to power," which he considered the major driving force behind human behavior, is one of the three basic motivations, along with achievement and affiliation, that differentiate us as individuals.A simple experiment show show these broad emotional motivations can affect what you pay attention to or ignore on very basic levels. When they examine images of faces that express different kinds of emotion, power-oriented subjects are drawn to nonconfrontational visages, such as "surprise faces," rather than to those that suggest dominance, as "anger faces" do. In contrast, people spurred by affiliation gravitate toward friendly or joyful faces.

The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Do not trust everyone who smiles at you;some admire your achievements,but some misunderstand them,and many more envy them.Jealousy is like the sky:everywhere on everyone.

Don’t believe those who say, ‘you can’t’. You can make it in life.You can realise all your dreams.

No man can achieve success if he didn’t first know the value of time.

Like the evangelist, I will shine with the light I have been shown, recognise that I have the ultimate solution for all my prospects, nurture that feeling deep within, and repeat the words to myself every day, until there is no doubt in my mind that keeping such good news hidden would be the very worst type of sin.

It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and a SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE

To achieve greatness, we must overcome the fear of failure and dare to take great risks.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry.

God has provided food for every bird, but He doesn't throw it in their nests

It is only when you are confident about your own self, that the society begins to hail you the way you want.

Fortune hides behind action.

The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts

I have personally always admired a guy that tried to do something big, but this matter of doing something big has many definitions, and it seems that whenever there is anybody doing a good job, not everybody is going to be pleased, and then, it's just a matter of time before the barrage, verbal or vegetable, sets in.

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

Remaining focus is the key to success. You cannot be successful if you are focusing on everyone else

The Prerequisite of any "Success Story" is the decision to commit in giving up your own soul to the Journey that you are about to start.

Achievement was worth of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest greatness of all still belonged to the Roman Republic itself

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.