Thoughts of Achievement Quotes in English

Our achievements of today are but the sun total of our thoughts of yesterday.  You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

- Blaise Pascal

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste.  The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

- Thomas A. Bennet

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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly.  Do not look at small advantages.  Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.  Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

- Confucius

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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

- Cummings

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Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

- William James

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Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.  This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy and the greatest of all is confidence.  When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

- Walt Disney

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.  Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

- Emerson

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When starting somethin new, don't focus on the whole task in front of you figure out a first step and make it one you are resonably sure of accomplishing. lots of these little steps will eventually enable you to reach you goal.

- Robert Kriegel

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Study your past achievements and those qualities and capabilities that made the achievements possible. These are what you will build on for future success. The age at which your triumphs occurred is not important. All that counts is your own opinion of your achievements. When you stick to this rule, you will begin to discover that most interesting stranger who is yourself.

- Bernard Haldane

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Achievement Thouthgt in English

We will either find a way, or make one.

- Hannibal Download or Share

Never mistake activity for achievement.

- A Quotation From John Wooden

Failures are finger post on the road to achievement.

Charles F.Kettering

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

- by Niccol Machiavelli

The only way around is through.

- Thoughts from Robert Frost

I want to put a ding in the universe.

- by Steve Jobs

All great achievements require time.

Angelou Download or Share

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

- William James

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

- Dennis Weaver

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

- Alphonse De Lamartine Download or Share

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Henry David Thoreau Download or Share

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

- George Eliot Download or Share

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake Download or Share

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

- Julia Woodruff Download or Share

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

- Robert Louis Stevenson Download or Share

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

- Mal Pancoast Download or Share

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

- Plutarch Download or Share

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden Download or Share

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

- Zig Ziglar Download or Share

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

- Zig Ziglar Download or Share

You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

- Zig Ziglar

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

- Norman Vincent Peale

The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep.

- Anonymous

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

- Jean De La Fontaine

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

- George Orwell

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

- Anonymous

Hell, there are no rules here , we're trying to accomplish something.

- Thomas Alva Edison

The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

- Unknown

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

- Jonas Salk

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

- Einstein

You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.

- Zig Ziglar

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

- Jack Kinder

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

- Chinese proverb

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

- A. P. Gouthey

God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

- Elbert Hubbard

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

- A. P. Gouthey

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

- Allen

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.

- Zig Ziglar

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

- Lincoln

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

-Samuel Johnson

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

- Benjamin Jowett

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

- Susan Taylor

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

- Anonymous

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

- Dwight Whitney Morrow

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

- Johnson

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

- Alfred Adler

To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.

- Anonymous

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

- Anonymous

If you don’t climb the mountain, you can’t view the plain.

- Anonymous

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

- Douglas

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- Otto Rank Download or Share

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- by Zig Zaglar

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor Download or Share

The journey is the reward.

- Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin Download or Share

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden Download or Share

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden Download or Share

Think little goals and expect little achievements.  Think big goals and win big success.

David Joseph Schwartz Download or Share

Age is not a barrier to achievement. As we grow older and learn more, we gain the confidence to take on new challenges.

Robert Mc Garvey Download or Share

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton Download or Share

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

George Bernard Shaw Download or Share

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

- by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be born a gentleman is an accident; to die one, an achievement.

- Anonymous Download or Share

Too often people set before them a difficult task, then give up. Goals should be focused on what is achievable.

Dave Thomas Download or Share

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Sir James M. Barrie

It's no use saying, "We are doing our doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

- Winston Churchill

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon Download or Share

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download or Share

Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

- George Fabricius Download or Share

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Dr. Jonas Salk Download or Share

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love.  This is how the whole scheme of things works.  All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

- Morarji Desai

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

- Franklin

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.

- Twain

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

- Keller *

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

- Zig Ziglar

I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling.

- J.R. Simplot

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

- Zig Ziglar

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

- Henry Drummond

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

- Edwards

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

- Hill

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

- Norman Vincent Peale

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

- Zig Ziglar

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.

- Hill

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

- Carl Jung

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

- Winston Churchill

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

- Alfred A. Montapert

Empty pockets never held anyone back.  Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

- Norman Vincent Peale

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

- Ovid

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

- Anonymous

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.

- Zig Ziglar

Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.

- Unknown

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

- Shaw

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

- Robert Collier

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

- Charles Kuralt American

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

- Frank Clark

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- General George Smith Patton, Jr.

It shows exactly what you can do if you're a total psychotic.

- Allen

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

- Camus

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

- Angelou

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.

- Zig Ziglar

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free - but it can't go anywhere.

- Zig Ziglar

You can finish school, and even make it easy – but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

- Zig Ziglar

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

- Picasso

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

- Napoleon Hill

Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

- Dag Hammarskj’ld

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

- by Earl Warren

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

- Peale

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

- Holmes

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

- Allen

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

- Nin

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

- Thatcher

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

- Napoleon Hill

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

- H. L. Hunt

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

- Nin

God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!

- Anonymous

Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

- Anonymous

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.

- Zig Ziglar

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

- Zig Ziglar

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

- Zig Ziglar

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

- Sir James M. Barrie

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

- Kahlil Gibran

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

- Zig Ziglar

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blames him.  Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

- Unknown

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

- Epictetus Quotation

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

- Thomas Edison

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

- Dale Carnegie

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

- Emerson

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

- Aurelius

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

- Einstein

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.

- Vince Lombardi

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo Clock!

- Orson Welles

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and idea. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

- Etty Hilsum

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

- Paul Tillich

A man many fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Along the way to any goal, you will be confronted with obstacles. Belief in yourself can act an ananaesthetic against these obstacles.

- Robert Mc Garvey

Set your goals and follow through on them. Then you will be transforming yourself from one life's spectators into a real participant.

- Lou Holtz

I was the kind nobody thought could make it.  I had a funny Boston accent.  I couldn't pronounce my R's.  I wasn't a beauty.

- Barbara Walters

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

- Holmes

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants.  God makes the animals, man makes himself.

- George C. Lichtenberg

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

-Golo Mann

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.

- Bruce Barton

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

- Heber J. Grant

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential, these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Eddie Robinson

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant.  It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

- Georgia O'Keefe

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

- Eric Hoffer

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, Keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

- Alan Lakein Quotations

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

- Brian Tracy

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

- Michelangelo

Dedicated yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself.  Give yourself peace of mind.  You deserve to be happy.  You deserve delight.

- Mark Victor Hansen

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

- Ayn Rand

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

- William Sharp

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

- General Dwight David Eisenhower

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

- Holmes

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.

- C.S. Lewis

The full results are not a surprise. But it is a big achievement that the return of 25 percent has been reached. These are positive figures.

- Becker

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

- Ziglar

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

- Hill

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

- Emerson

They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.

- Buddha

Getting in the Premiership with this club was a wonderful achievement for everybody - and if we can manage to stay in it, then that would be even greater. This is a bit of a bonus really.

- Jewell

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

- Ford

It's an incredible achievement, particularly when I remember that when I bought the Yankees, we had trouble drawing 1 million to the stadium. We have the greatest fans in the world.

- Steinbrenner

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

- David Bailey

Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

- Gabriel Heatter

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service is small matters.  This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

- Brian Tracy

Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.

- Aldrin

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

- Gian-Carlo Menotti

Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

- Orison Swett Marden

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

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.

- Foster C. Mcclellan

Breaking a goal down into manageable pieces makes achieving it seem less intimidating. A technique called backward planning consiss of setting an objective and then retracing the steps needed to achieve it.

- Robert Mc Garvey

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.

- Hugh Nibley

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

- Confucius

Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.

- Frederick Pierce

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

- Rand Thoughts

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success.  She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you.  Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying.  Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

-Helen Hayes

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines.  For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

- Gabriel Heatter

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

- C. Hoppe

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

- Samuel Johnson

Where there is a will there is a way." is an true saying.  He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

- Samuel Smiles

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.  You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

- Woodrow T. Wilson

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.  But above this level, far above

- Simone Weil

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes

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.

-Foster C. Mcclellan

Nothing is as difficult so to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and he milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect towards other men and other ideas.

- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

- Ayn Rand

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

- by Woodrow Wilson

For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill.  The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

- John Winthrop