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

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

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

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.
George Lucas

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Hammerstein II

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
Katharine Anthony

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

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

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
Sheena Easton

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
Bill Laswell

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

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.
Sebastian Vettel

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda

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.
Scott Hamilton

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

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 biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
J. Philippe Rushton