Achievement Quotes

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.