Famous Quotes about Achievement (88 Quotations)

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these — that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.