Achievement Quotes - Page 35

• Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Records, Break

  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall (1993). “Arnold”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Hard Work, Challenges

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Mind, Mastery

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Mean, Next Week

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• The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Vocabulary, Growing

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• Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

  James A. Champy

  Graduation, Ambition, Roots

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• The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

  Eric Hoffer

  Disappointment, Empty Life, Details

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

  Timothy Geithner

  Educational, Commitment, Economic Inequality

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• Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspiring, Ambition, One Day At A Time

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• Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Promise, Mind

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• Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.

  Frances Perkins

  Opportunity, Civilization, Ideas

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• Find your own dream! Keep this dream and take good care of it and then sometime you will accomplish something [and feel the intense satisfaction that only the achievement of a long held, worthwhile goal can give].

  Koichi Tanaka

  Dream, Long, Giving

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• Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

  Rick Warren

  Motivation, What Matters, Acquisition

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Growth, Test Scores

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.66, Random House

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• Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Focus, Effort, Growth

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.67, Random House

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• My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

  Alexander Kotov

  Hard Work, Learning, Chess

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• For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values - our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Numbers, People

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998".

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• The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

  Neil Simon

  Women, Body, Lasts

  Neil Simon (1971). “The gingerbread lady: a new play”, Samuel French, Inc.

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• We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Progress, Degenerates

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1118, Manonmani Publishers

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• Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial revolution, its government of checks and balances, and its conquests around the world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, History, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2008). “Conquests And Cultures: An International History”, p.67, Basic Books

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• Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

  Simon Heffer

  History, Mad, Heroic

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• To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Calm, Highest

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• Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Disability

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• Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.

  Gary L. Francione

  Philosophy, Animal, Rights

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• The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

  Stanley Cavell

  Happiness, Examination, Satisfaction

  "Pursuits of Happiness". Book by Stanley Cavell, 1981.

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