Top 335 Achievement Quotes

Happiness is a feeling of your own achievement, and it signifies goals.
Jaya Prada
I’ll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.
Donovan Bailey
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
Paul Ryan
Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.
Nick Woodman
For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
Mikheil Saakashvili
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein
I’m not going to have a six-pack abs. I think it’s a luxury to have six-pack abs, but I don’t think I can afford it yet. It’s extremely tough, and I think having it will be an achievement.
Harshvardhan Rane
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources.
Luc de Clapiers
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
Loretta Young
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
Zadie Smith
Burning Man is a crowning achievement of freedom in festival culture.
Alex Grey
For an actor, that is the biggest achievement, to be known by your character name.
Madalsa Sharma
Chinese martial artists consider themselves to be gardeners, and it’s an honor for them to take care of this garden, to better it and hand it over to the generations that follow. I think that’s a very important message in a time when personal achievement seems to be the only criteria of success.
Wong Kar-wai
I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It’s the most important achievement.
Natalia Vodianova
Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.
ร“scar Arias
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami.
Virginia Postrel
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students’ achievement are applauded and rewarded.
Lionel Sosa
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Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey – flat or jumps – there’s ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement.
Tony McCoy
No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.
Polykarp Kusch
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
I think fans acknowledged the effort I have made as a solo artist and as a member of Bigbang throughout the years. It is a very humbling yet gratifying achievement for me.
Taeyang
Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.
Stephanie Ruhle
The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It’s an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn’t sustainable.
Jeff Bezos
But I don’t pretend I earned a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Derek Trucks
As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.
David Trimble
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.
Frederic Chopin
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
George Washington Carver
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
Ayn Rand
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.
Brian Ferneyhough
Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.
Paul J. Meyer
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn’t be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.
Amy Sedaris
It’s pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that’s lasted for 30 years – for one space shuttle. That’s quite an achievement.
John M. Grunsfeld
Integrity is critical to our lives – and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
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.
J. Philippe Rushton
We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.
Robert Kennedy
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.
Brene Brown
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill
The goal, and the ultimate achievement, is to make people feel as well as think.
Saul Bass
To be captain of such a huge club like Chelsea is a great personal achievement.
Gary Cahill
I mean getting into parliament was quite an achievement in itself and then I have to pinch myself at the thought of actually running a department.
Angela Rayner
We must make it clear to younger girls that being someone’s wife is not an achievement.
Reham Khan
I think I feel good as a South African player that people say that we always get into semifinal and lose… this is one of the biggest achievements to get into semifinal. Not many teams do that. For me, it’s a real achievement.
Imran Tahir
Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with a richness rivaled only by elite private schools and those in the most upscale suburbs.
Chris Gabrieli
There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it’s a negative achievement.
Mitchell Zuckoff
I quite like the idea of family. That’s probably the greatest achievement in the world. I’ve got a lot to achieve workwise – I’d love to direct – but family would be good.
Matt Smith
I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?
Michael Palin
I don’t know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
Rick Rubin
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May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
Cory Booker
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.
James S. Coleman
We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we’ve been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.
Tullian Tchividjian
The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I’m getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer’s funeral because they all know I’m sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
Sam Simon
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
Herbert Croly
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.
Charles J. Givens
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind’s greatest political and social achievement.
Paul Tsongas
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. Lewis
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
Howard Barker
Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people’s daily lives with a sense of achievement.
B. F. Skinner
The genius of Rachel Dolezal’s transracial achievement is that it has nearly limitless applications. Rachel is taking ‘the power of positive thinking’ to a whole new level.
Tom Tancredo
To be a part of TT history is a massive achievement. It is one of, if not the greatest races on two wheels, if not on four.
Keith Flint