Achievement Quotes - Page 3

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Don’t hold back because you’re afraid of hurting someone else. If your best friend wants to be a cheerleader and you make the team but she doesn’t, don’t feel guilty. If you end up earning more than your sister, it’s not a betrayal. Your success might be an inspiration for someone else, while limiting yourself to avoid upsetting the balance doesn’t help anyone. Equally, rather than being paralysed by jealousy when someone else is coming out on top, use it to spur you on to greater things. Some of our best achievements will be triggered by envy at seeing someone else fulfilling our secret ambitions.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Don’t be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.

Only with grace, can we reach the goal.

When God gives you a dream, He provide heavenly resources to fulfill the dream.

Do not get lost in the flow of reality.

How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.

How could we have achieved the set-goal, without endurance to the end?

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.

Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.

I find dreams of this type to be one of the wonders of the world and the human race. It is a miracle what can be built from a dream with nothing but two hands, and honest heart and ambition. Education is very important too, but even that is unnecessary if the dream is of sufficient strength and the cause is sufficiently noble and interesting to the individual.

Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.

A positive attitude leads to a positive action, which then yields a positive result. That’s how the cycle always goes. Nothing seems to be too difficult for people blessed with positive mindsets.

Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.

Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

Fortune hides behind action.

You have been complaining so long about your labour pains. It's time to show us your baby! What at all have you been dreaming about that long? Let's see it and give it a name!

Difficulties & Challenges become our strength when we focus the goal.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

With all the global warming going around nowadays, it would only take the stubbornness of a mule and the patience of a sitting duck to achieve what no man has ever done before – namely melt the ice in a wax figure’s beaten heart that was chopped off and hidden 50 meters under the polar ice caps in Alaska, to protect it from feeling.

When we fail, we think that is the end of life. Actually, it is the beginning of a greater life when we persistently preserved.

There is no limit to what you can achieve, if you believe you can.

You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal.

A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

We should get rid of these restricting attitudes and system of beliefs in order to remove obstacles in our way to the achievements of our goals and revealing our potential

Life is what we make it to be; can be other people’s life or it can be our special one. The difference is that the first we sit and watch and basically we know the ending but the second is defined by us and require lots of work and effort to define the way we want to live by. It is a journey with no end in sight, no distance measured behind, just going. It is a faith similar to the faith to your God but this one is just faith in yourself and your capability to define a path with a vision of the future that you really can not see but rather feel and sense.

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

So often we quit on the first failure. We must persistent long enough to achieve success.

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

We can all make impact in achieving a common goal

One of my greatest failures: I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.One of my greatest achievements:I have learnt to ignore my futureless past.

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Work while you can.

Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High.But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear

You have to set yourself a particular goal

You must learn to see everything around yourself as a resources, your opportunities, and turn them into your weapons to get them working in your favor, in order to achieve your goal

Winning is not a matter of acceptance but a term of dedication with an interest to achieve.

Man's most important achievement is not about standing up and start walking but, standing up to speak the truth.

Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things and thence proceed to greater.

Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action.

Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.

Ideal is the one, who knows the self.

With sense of achievement comes satisfaction… and with satisfaction comes contentment. Contentment is ultimate goal of life.