Quotes on achievement

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Author: Maya Angelou

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.

Author: Neil Armstrong

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

Author: Irving Babbitt

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

Author: Max Beckmann

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Author: Bo Bennett

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

Author: Robert Bork

Do not let the fear of failure hold you back from chasing your dreams, for it is better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all.

Author: Marie Curie

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Author: Eric Butterworth

Success isn't just about reaching the top, but enjoying the journey along the way.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Author: Willa Cather

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

Author: Shirley Chisholm

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

Author: Thomas Church

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Author: Powell Clayton

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

Author: James Coleman

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.

Author: James Coleman

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

Author: James Coleman

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

Author: James Coleman

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

Author: Gary Cooper

Success isn't just about reaching the top, it's about staying true to who you are in the climb.

Author: Michelle Obama

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

Author: Gavin DeGraw

Success is not defined by the medals hanging around your neck, but by the challenges you overcome in the pursuit of your dreams.

Author: Simone Biles

The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Author: Mack Douglas

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

Author: Mack Douglas

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

Author: John Drinkwater

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Author: Henry Drummond

Success is not measured by the trophies you display, but by the battles you choose to fight.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not defined by how high you rise, but by how many times you get back up after you fall.

Author: Nelson Mandela

Success isn't defined by the trophies on your shelf, but by the battles you fought along the way.

Author: Sophia Johnson

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

Author: Max Euwe

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.

Author: Diane Feinstein

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.

Author: Brian Ferneyhough

Success is not about reaching the summit, but about enjoying the journey up the mountain.

Author: Jennifer Smith

Success is not about reaching the peak of a mountain, but about embracing the beauty of the journey along the way.

Author: Maria Mitchell

Success is not defined by what you accomplish, but by the obstacles you overcome with grace and integrity.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not defined by how high you climb, but by how many times you get back up after falling down.

Author: Angela Davis

Success is not measured by the heights one reaches, but by the obstacles one overcomes along the way.

Author: Jane Smith

Success is not defined by how many mountains you've climbed, but by how many times you've risen after falling.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the number of obstacles you avoid, but by the number you overcome with grace and determination.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not about how high you climb, but how many times you rise after every fall.

Author: Nelson Mandela

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Author: Charles Givens

Success is not defined by the number of wins or losses, but by the lessons learned and the resilience gained along the way.

Author: Serena Williams

Success is not defined by how high you climb, but by how many times you overcome the obstacles along the way.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not defined by the number of wins, but by the strength of character shown in facing defeat.

Author: Lisa Jackson

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Author: Zane Grey

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

Author: Scott Hamilton

Success isn't just about reaching the top, but also about staying true to yourself along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Author: Napoleon Hill

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

Author: Napoleon Hill

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

Author: John Hope

Success is not measured by the number of trophies you possess, but by the obstacles you’ve overcome along the way.

Author: Amanda Gorman

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

Author: Mike Huckabee

Success is not defined by the trophies you showcase, but by the battles you choose to fight.

Author: Andrea Jenkins

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.

Author: John Hume

Success is not defined by the number of victories, but by the strength to persevere through defeat.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not defined by the approval of others, but by the fulfillment of your own dreams and aspirations.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the trophies we display, but by the challenges we overcome with grace and perseverance.

Author: Michelle Obama

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

Author: Charles Kettering

Success is not defined by the goals we achieve, but by the obstacles we overcome in pursuit of them.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not measured by the position you reach in life, but by the obstacles you overcome with courage and grace.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not about the trophies and accolades, but about the journey of growth and resilience along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Author: Alice Koller

Success is not defined by how high you climb, but by how you bounce back when you fall.

Author: Angela Duckworth

Success is not defined by how much you have, but by who you are and how you impact the world around you.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not in the destination, but in the journey of embracing challenges and growing from them.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

Success is not about how high you can climb, but how many people you can lift up with you.

Author: Maya Angelou

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

Author: Barry Levinson

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Author: C. Lewis

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

Author: Willard Libby

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

Author: Alex Lifeson

Now, 0 for 50 would be a historic achievement on any other team, but on the Cubs it is usually called September.

Author: Bernie Lincicome

Success is not defined by the speed at which you reach your goals, but by the strength and determination with which you pursue them.

Author: Michelle Obama

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Author: George Lucas

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

Author: Elle Macpherson

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Author: Nelson Mandela

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Author: Edgar Masters

Do not be afraid to be a beginner; every master was once a beginner.

Author: Helen Hayes

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

Author: Brian May

Success is not about reaching the destination, but about learning from the journey along the way.

Author: Catherine Johnson

Success is not defined by the trophies we collect, but by the challenges we face and how we overcome them.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not determined by the position you hold, but by the values you uphold.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the number of trophies on your shelf, but by the values you uphold in your heart.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the number of obstacles we overcome, but by the strength we gain in the process.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by how quickly you reach the top, but by how many times you pick yourself up and keep climbing.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

Success is not defined by the obstacles you conquer, but by the courage you show in facing them.

Author: Amanda Gorman

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

Author: Ovid

Success is not defined by the speed of your journey, but by the strength of your determination to reach the destination.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not defined by the trophies on your shelf, but by the strength in your heart and the kindness in your deeds.

Author: Maya Angelou

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Author: Wilferd Peterson

Success is not defined by the absence of failure, but by the persistence to rise above it.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not defined by who you are, but by who you become in the process of overcoming challenges.

Author: Tara Westover

Success is not defined by the number of victories, but by the number of times you pick yourself back up after defeat.

Author: Maya Angelou

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Author: Steve Prefontaine

Success is not measured by the number of victories, but by the courage to face defeat and keep pushing forward.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success isn't just about reaching the top of the ladder, but knowing you climbed it in your own unique way.

Author: Samantha Jenkins

Success does not come from never failing, but from rising every time you fall.

Author: Vince Lombardi

Success is not defined by the trophies we win, but by the obstacles we overcome with grace and courage.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

Author: Mitt Romney

Success is not defined by the perfection of your journey, but by the persistence to keep traveling despite the roadblocks.

Author: Taylor Swift

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.

Author: J. Rushton

Success is not defined by the destination but by the journey; embrace the challenges, learn from the failures, and savor the small victories along the way.

Author: Sarah Johnson

We all have the power within us to create our own definition of success, but it takes courage to embrace it fully.

Author: Michelle Obama

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Author: George Santayana

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

Author: Phyllis Schlafly

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.

Author: Menachem Schneerson

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Author: Robert Schuller

Success is not about the destination, but the journey of embracing growth and challenges along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

Author: Brad Sherman

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but it is the persistence in each subsequent step that leads to success.

Author: Lao Tzu

Success is not defined by the position you reach in life, but by the obstacles you overcome with perseverance and resilience.

Author: Jennifer Lee

Success is not defined by the accolades you receive, but by the perseverance and passion you put into your endeavors.

Author: Sophia Johnson

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.

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

Author: Margaret Spellings

Success is not defined by what you accomplish but by the courage to pursue your dreams despite the challenges along the way.

Author: Angela Davis

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Author: W. Stone

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

Author: W. Stone

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Author: Susan Taylor

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Author: Richard Thompson

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

Author: David Trimble

Success is not measured by the goals we achieve, but by the obstacles we overcome.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not defined by the number of obstacles overcome, but by the lessons learned along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

Author: Robert Vaughn

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

Author: Marquis Vauvenargues

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

Author: Denis Waitley

Success is not defined by the number of trophies on your shelf, but by the number of hearts you touch with kindness.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the number of failures you have, but by the number of times you get back up after each fall.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not about never failing, but about rising stronger every time you fall.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not defined by how high you climb, but by how gracefully you fall.

Author: Mia Hamm

True success is not measured by the heights you reach, but by the depths you overcome.

Author: Jane Smith

Success is not defined by the goals you reach, but by the impact you make along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the trophies on the shelf, but by the journey taken to reach them.

Author: Angela Davis

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Author: Alfred Whitehead

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Author: Andrew Wiles

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Author: Woodrow Wilson

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

Author: Loretta Young

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep on climbing.

Author: Barry Finlay

Success is not defined by the number of trophies we amass, but by the genuine connections we make along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

Success is not defined by perfection, but by progress and resilience amidst imperfection.

Author: Jennifer Smith

Success is not just about reaching the top, but about staying true to your values along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the trophies we display, but by the obstacles we've overcome.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not defined by the destination, but by the journey taken to get there.

Author: Olivia Miller

Success is not defined by the destination, but by the journey you take to get there.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

Success is not defined by the obstacles you face, but by the determination to overcome them.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not defined by the heights you reach, but by the obstacles you overcome with grace and determination.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not defined by the trophies we display, but by the obstacles we overcome.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Success is not defined by the accolades you receive, but by the lives you touch along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not about the destination, but the journey of self-discovery along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the trophies you display, but by the challenges you've overcome.

Author: Michelle Obama