Achievement Quotes - Page 50

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.

We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple

There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state.

If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took place chiefly between 1150 and 1250, must be shared between the officials of the royal Chancery, who framed new forms, and the royal judges, who either allowed them or quashed them.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

John Wooden would say never mistake activity for achievement. Sometimes we think we're really doing well on a given day. But 'What did you accomplish?' is the question that we should really be asking not 'What did we do?'

Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.