Achievement Quotes - Page 11

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

There is always joy in achieving ,but the greater satisfaction lies in sharing the achievement.

Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.

Your only competitors are your past achievements.

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

Comfort is the enemy of achievement.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

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 that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

The label of 'marathoner' has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled or tiptoed. When you cross that finish line, you've entered an elite group. About one-tenth of one percent of the population has done it. Don't let anyone take that great achievement away from you.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.

You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.