Achievement Quotes

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

Faith, Hope, Confidence

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

Wife, Able, Ability

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.
Ayn Rand

Life, Happiness, Pain

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir

Life, Trust, Happy

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

Great, Sacrifice, Born

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Road, Failures, Finger

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

Success, Words, Progress

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford

May, Mistake, Turn

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

Hope, Everything, Wish

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez

Forget, Enough, Cannot

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.
Alice Koller

Alone, Others, Rather

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

Work, Happiness, Best

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

Freedom, Human, Sun

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness, Joy, Creative

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill

Desire, Point, Starting

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Children, Lose

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

Happiness, State, Values

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.
Steve Prefontaine

Down, Sense, Keep

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono

Life, Great, Hope

Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden

Mistake, Activity

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Hope, Yourself, Live

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.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing, Achieve, Simply

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.
W. Clement Stone

Mind, Goal, Problem

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
Bo Jackson

Life, Greatest, Father

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

Dreams, Time, Greatest

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.
Mitt Romney

Best, Children, Cannot

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

Success, Best, Failure

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes

Life, Work, Good

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn

Work, Great, Failure

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