Achievement Quotes

Most popular achievement quotes

The value of achievement lies in the achieving. - Albert Einstein quote.
The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
What we call results are beginnings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
What we call results are beginnings.
Aiming isn't hitting.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs

The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.
— Slogan of US army service force

military

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything. - Thomas Merton quote.
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

failure accomplishment

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. - James Allen quote.
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

thoughts

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.  The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.  Dreams are the seedlings of realities. - James Allen quote.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.  The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.  Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

dreams

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. - Albert Camus quote.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation.  Veneer isn't worth anything; we must disabuse our people of the idea that there is a short cut to achievement. - George Washington Carver quote.
Life requires thorough preparation.  Veneer isn't worth anything; we must disabuse our people of the idea that there is a short cut to achievement.

preparation

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax. - Agatha Christie quote.
Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.
It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog. - Joseph Conard quote.
It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.
The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself.  Those who know this can never know defeat.
Achievement is talent plus preparation. - Malcolm Gladwell quote.
Achievement is talent plus preparation.

talent preparation

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton quote.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

gratitude

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

hard work satisfaction happiness

No great achievement happens by luck. - Howard Schultz quote.
No great achievement happens by luck.
Howard Schultz Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

luck

Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long. - George Bernard Shaw quote.
Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.

aspiration

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment? - Robert Louis Stevenson quote.
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
Achievement, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Achievement, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. - Jawaharlal Nehru quote.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. - Nelson Mandela quote.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
In the practical as in the theoretic life, the man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing, whilst his neighbours, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own. - William James quote.
In the practical as in the theoretic life, the man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing, whilst his neighbours, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

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