Achievement Quotes - Page 6

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.

Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.

Great things have small beginnings.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.

In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and communities - because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for.

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.