Achievement Quotes - Page 3

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

Achievement has no color

I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality

You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.