Best Achievement Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.”

People Believe Important Taxes Achievement Investment Burden Distribution Equitable Tax System

Author:Richard Neal

“Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.”

Long Struggle Achievement Highest Titles Fallen Awards Life Struggle

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.”

Thinking I Can Happens Ability Comedy Wife Achievement Approach My Wife Working Women

Author:Nick Offerman

“To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.”

States Planets Goes On Achievement Stupidity Welfare Welfare State Great Achievement

Author:George Mikes

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

Source: Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires

“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.”

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Chance Achievement Direct Diners

Author:Barry Levinson

“The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.”

Men Littles Has Beens Said Facts Eye Social Achievement Blind Relate Aspiration Great Men

Author:James Loeb

“I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.”

People Doe Country Pride Grew Achievement Grew Up Socialist No Hope Socialist Countries

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.”

Needs Government Individual Growth Company Failing Economic Higher Taxes Achievement Innovation Economic Growth Individual Achievement

Author:Reince Priebus

“Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.”

Wells America Speak Language Achievement Majors North America

Author:Dick Pound

“The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.”

Self Values Self Esteem Pride Achievement Esteem Flags Celebration Betray Pins Curriculum Toddler False Pride

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.”

People Years Together Sports Community Achievement Thirds Celebrate Occasions Tennis Contribution Honour Receiving Medal Australian Recognise

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I'm mentally getting myself ready to talk about it all year long because I know it's going to come. My main focus is not to really concentrate on that... So many things have to line up, to be healthy and consistent for so many games, to get to that point. I know as we get closer we're going to talk about it more. But believe me, when it's done, if it gets done, it will be a huge achievement and I'm definitely going to soak it in. But at this time, it's not at the top of my mind.”

Ifs Knows Years Mind Believe Long Done Games Sports Lines Focus Ready Huge Healthy Achievement Training Preparation Consistent Believe In Me Of My Mind

Author:Anthony Calvillo

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

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Author:Anatole France

“In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.”

Thinking Individual Sports Health Buddhism Victory Ego Achievement West Defeat Agony Thrill Athletics Individual Achievement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.”

Forget Taken Achievement Europe Granted Principal Taken For Granted

Author:Dominique de Villepin

“The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.”

Humans Self Limits Achievement Addiction Life Wisdom

Author:Denis Waitley

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”

Thinking Motivational Wealth Materials Source Achievement Discovery Gains Originals Invention New Discoveries Original Thought Discovery And Invention

Book:Magic of Believing

Source: Magic of Believing

“Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.”

Want Motivational Purpose Goal Focus Achieve Achievement Determination Determine Setting Goals Zeal Attainment Singleness Goal Achievement Goals And Achievement Specific Goals Singleness Of Purpose

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires”

Persons Desire Chance Achieve Achievement Outcomes Flexibility

Book:Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

Source: Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

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

“In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.”

Home Artist Taken Activity Achievement Happenings Myth Melodrama

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.”

Achievement Highest Standards Perfection Lowest

Author:Andy Jenkins

“We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.”

Men May Different Reason Facts Form Effort Poverty Successful He Man Masters Thousand Achievement Misery Defeat Despite Chiefs March Undertakings

Book:The Law of Success

Source: The Law of Success

“It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.”

Ifs Should Looks Kind Ideas Seems Certain Christianity Achievement Eternal Should Have Contrary Realistic Worldly Trash Unreal Insisting Idealistic

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.”

Way Children Achievement Adults Gifted Domain Doers Learners Gifted Children

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.”

Firsts Audience Laughing Achievement Singing Piano Warmth Entertaining Playing Piano

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.”

Knows Trying Use Greater Talent Achievement Stones Grateful Each Day Stepping Stones I Am Grateful Hidden Talents

Book:Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver

Source: Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver

“Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.”

World Culture Jesus Wealth Quality Modern This World Honor Skills Achievement Rewards Artistic Winner Loser Impress Athletic Modern Culture

Author:Philip Yancey

“If you believe, then you have already taken the first step towards your achievement.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Steps Taken Achievement First Steps If You Believe Already Taken

Author:Rickson Gracie

“Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.”

Mind Body Spirit Balance Achievement Findings Great Achievement

Author:Rickson Gracie

“Dhoni is one of the greatest captain I have ever seen. Dhoni's record is praiseworthy. Twenty-two Test wins is not a small achievement. And the success against Australia has come against the backdrop of the not-so-good times he went through in the last two years”

Years Two Lasts Winning Records Achievement Tests Twenties Good Times Australia Two Years Captains Praiseworthy Backdrop Twenty Two Dhoni

Author:Sourav Ganguly

“The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.”

Rights Movement Achievement Dignity Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Indignation Greatest Achievement

Author:Fredric Wertham

“The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.”

Facts Causes Influence Media Students Achievement Evidence Mere Currents Instruction Vehicle Nutrition Truck Groceries Student Achievement

Author:Richard A. Clarke

“I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Happens Wish Achievement Gains Athlete Optimistic Grants Palestinian Almighty Olympics Qualifying

Author:Nader al-Masri

“How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.”

Names My Own Cases Teacher Masters Achievement Conscious

Author:C. F. Powell

“When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in perfect health that all sickness is forgotten, all the powers of mind will proceed to create health, and every trace of sickness will soon disappear. When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in higher attainments and in greater achievements that all thought of failure is forgotten, all the forces of mind will begin to work for the promotion of those attainments and achievements. The person will be gaining ground every day, and greater success will positively follow.”

Mind Persons Force Perfect Greater Higher Achievement Forgotten Disappear Sickness Promotion Positively Attainment Power Of The Mind

Author:Christian D. Larson

“The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.”

Long Lost Animal Party Achievement Intellectual Glory Artistic Paradise Association Disposition Stimulus Rushing Party Animal

Author:Susan Cain

“English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.”

Feelings Life Is Names Talent Huge Sorrow Achievement Balls Income Addresses Hobbies Participants Decoration Masquerade

Author:Pierre Daninos

“The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.”

“It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.”

Humans Natural Careers Study Achievement Historical Unity Conception Natural Science Greatest Achievement

Author:James Henry Breasted

“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.”

“Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.”

Art Common Quality Democracy Achievement Chaos Common Denominator

Author:Walter Legge

“The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.”

Mean Country States Found United United States Economic Prove Achievement Patterns Educational Canada Canada And The United States

Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.”

Needs Important Environment Mets Achievement Mental Health Environmental Decades Cleaners Environmental Health

Author:Samuel Wilson

“An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.”

Culture Fun Amount Achievement Smart Excellence Employee Mediocrity Retail

Author:Kip Tindell

“Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”

“In the Now, there really is no destination. Each moment is lived for its own sake, even as you move toward whatever you many choose to pursue. When you are focused on some outcome or achievement-or are looking forward to the day when you are able to live in conditions that you imagine will be superior to whatever currently exists-your life right now becomes just an interval on the way to the next event.”

Way Moments Able Moving Next Imagine Conditions Events Right Now Achievement Sake Focused Superiors Pursue Outcomes Destination Looking Forward Intervals

Author:Richard Moss

“True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.”

People Hands Achievement Independence True Independence

Author:Y. C. James Yen

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