Achievement Quotes

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

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

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

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.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

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.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

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

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.