Achievement Quotes

• Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Achievement

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

  

  Albert Camus
  • Achievement
  • Bondage
  • Obliges

• More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.

  

  Karl Taylor Compton
  • America
  • Progress
  • Hundred

• Your obstacles define your achievements, and without those obstacles, you're just another bland nothing.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • Achievement
  • Obstacles
  • Bland

• It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Triumph

• The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Achievement

• From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

  

  George Sarton
  • Essence
  • Replaced
  • Unforgettable

• America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • America
  • Dream
  • Faith

• I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.

  

  Antonin Kratochvil
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

  

  Willard Libby
  • Science
  • Effort
  • inspirational

• [Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The symbolism was in - and this sounds really, really small, but it's actually big for African-Americans - the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • House
  • Small

• The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?

  

  Bill Simmons
  • Opinion
  • Achievement

• 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.

  

  Carl Hoppe
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Helping

• To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Challenges
  • Obstacles

• The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish things that we might never have achieved without such undeserved praise.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Giving
  • Achievement
  • Might

• Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

  

  Amelia B. Edwards
  • Achievement
  • Civilization
  • Archeology

• We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Achievement

• Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting.

  

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
  • Achievement
  • Realization
  • Momentary

• In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • World
  • Work
  • Achievement

• Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Success
  • Alone
  • Achievement

• Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.

  

  Nicki Chapman
  • Paid
  • Massive
  • Earning

• In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

  

  David Landes
  • Success
  • Improvement
  • Optimistic

• The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

  

  William Pfaff
  • Suffering
  • Circumstance
  • Nationhood

• Bosnia and Herzegovina has done what many said was impossible even a year ago, let alone at the start of my mandate in May 2002. For the country now stands at the gates of Europe, ... This is a truly remarkable achievement for a country as war-torn as Bosnia and Herzegovina was just 10 years ago.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Country
  • Done
  • May

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