Achievement Quotes - Page 27

• I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Success, Air, Hands

  8 Copy quote

• Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Thinking, Hatred

  5 Copy quote

• He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Success, Heart, Bears

  4 Copy quote

• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

  12 Copy quote

• When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

  Eustace Budgell

  Success, Victory, Use

  6 Copy quote

• Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.

  John Donne

  Success, Media, Degrees

  6 Copy quote

• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loyalty, Fall, Two

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my career there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved. But my greatest achievement is my family. What matters is being a good father and a good husband-just being connected to family as much as possible. Being a dad is more important than football, more important than anything. I adore children. I love the fact our children are part of both of us. It's one of the most amazing things ever.

  David Beckham

  Football, Children, Husband

  5 Copy quote

• Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

  George Gilder

  Effort, World, Belief

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.103, Regnery Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Fear Of Failure, Driven

  "Lesson #4: Break Through That Wall". www.evancarmichael.com.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

  14 Copy quote

• Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or as a recollection or even as an evaluation from others. lt's not something that you can physically hold onto or repeat at will. Only when you acknowledge the special moments can you truly feel the effects of your most wonderful achievements.

  Tommy Tune

  Ballet, Special, Doe

  16 Copy quote

• The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

  Janet Jackson

  Self Love, God Love, Humans

  31 Copy quote

• Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

  Adolf Galland

  Stronger, Air Power, Aviation

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

  Anna Paquin

  Art, Thinking, Careers

  4 Copy quote

• Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Thinking, Doctrine

  31 Copy quote

• When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, School, Simple

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Adventure, Noble, Obscure

  "Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader".

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Maturity, Rocks

  118 Copy quote

• We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Two, Effort, Adults

  23 Copy quote

• Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.

  Karl Barth

  Art, Atheist, Thinking

  "A Karl Barth Reader".

  145 Copy quote

  Show source

• What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

  Martin Seligman

  Children, Character, Practice

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Flourish”, p.128, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Cost, World

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.27, Harper Collins

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

  Neal Boortz

  Block, Office, Political

  5 Copy quote