Great Achievement Quotes:

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

- Francoise Sagan

topic: Happiness, Achievement, Great Achievement

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

- Robin Sharma

topic: Sacrifice, Achievement, Great Achievement, Great Sacrifice

It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

- Joe Biden

source: "Obama Happily Hands Iraq and Afghanistan to Al-Qaeda to Discredit George W. Bush". www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 12, 2014.

topic: Achievement, Administration, Great Achievement

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Achievement, Boring, Great Achievement, Protestantism

Belief is the cornerstone of all the great achievements since the beginning of time.

- Robert Anthony

source: Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.74, Morgan James Publishing

topic: Achievement, Belief, Great Achievement, Cornerstones

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Heart, Achievement, Victory, Career Change, Great Achievement

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

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Success, Smart, Journey To Success, Starting All Over

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.

- Marc Garneau

topic: Technology, Safety, Achievement, Great Achievement

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Men, Design, Owing, Great Achievement

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

- Jan Peter Balkenende

topic: War, Europe, Achievement, Post War, Great Achievement

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

- Joseph Conrad

source: 1915 Victory, author's note.

topic: Blessed, Fog, Achievement, Rulership, Great Achievement

I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Achievement, Impossible, I've Learned, Great Achievement

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

- Florenz Ziegfeld

topic: Achievement, Add, May, Great Achievement, Chorus

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

- Milton Friedman

source: "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

topic: Running, Government, Self, Great Achievement, Automobile Industry

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Love, Karma, Buddhist, Chance And Risk, Great Achievement

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

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

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 Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Spiritual Vision, Leadership And Vision

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

- Charles Kettering

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Teacher, Motivational Achievement, Aim High

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

- Conrad Hilton

topic: Life, Motivational, Moving On, Best Success, Perserverance

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 08, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Impossible Dream, Inspirational Achievement

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Positive Thinking, Personal Achievement, Dreams And Reality

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Inspirational Achievement, Inspiring Presidential

Never mistake activity for achievement.

- John Wooden

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Achievement, Basketball Coaching

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

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

- Jack Nicklaus

source: Jack Nicklaus (1998). “Jack Nicklaus: My Story”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Positive, Expectations, Achievement, Strive For Success, Lifetime Achievement

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Philosophy, About Success

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Positive Thinking, Thinking, World, Spiritual Vision, Leadership And Vision

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

- Nido R Qubein

topic: Inspirational, Goal, People, Winner And Loser, Great Achievement

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

- Leonard Bernstein

topic: Time, Stress, Humor, Not Enough Time, Stress And Life

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

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Encouraging, Cheer, Achiever, Encouragement For Friends

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Poverty, Errands, World, Spiritual Vision, Leadership And Vision

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

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

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Dream, Inspirational Achievement, Mind Heart

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Family, Road To Success, Selfish People

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Giving Up, Achievement, Remember, Overnight Success, Great Achievement

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, About Success, Inspirational Achievement

Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Positive, Dream, Law Of Attraction, Grad, Imagine That

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

topic: Achievement, Excellence, Ongoing, Springboards, Personal Achievement

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Success, Ambition, Goal, Inspirational Goal, Motivation Goal Setting

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Grad, Imagine That

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Goal, Personal Achievement, Great Achievement

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Achievement

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Accomplishing Great Things, Achieve Greatness

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Failure In Life, Inspirational Success Failure