Achievement results from work realizing ambition. — Adam Ant
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. — Robin Sharma
To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product. — Eric Ries
Sometimes, we just don’t know enough about what we are trying to achieve. — Stuart Wilde
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. — William James
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. — Denis Waitley
Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. — Brian Tracy
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. — Tom Robbins
But all actors go through the process, it’s hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. — Thomas Haden Church
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain. — Claude Bernard
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement. — James A. Champy
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing. — Alexander Woollcott
As a builder, you don’t get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed. — Peter Karmanos, Jr.
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness. — Omar N. Bradley
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. — Denis Waitley
Ethics is not for wimps. It’s not easy being a good person. That’s why it’s such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement — Michael Josephson
In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage. — Mao Zedong
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement. — Aberjhani
Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other. — A. J. P. Taylor
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter. — Lee Iacocca
The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially. — Edgar Alwin Payne
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement. — Grover Cleveland
I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things. — Tim Ferriss
We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met. — Samuel Wilson
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. — Jonathan Kozol
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. — Swami Vivekananda
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of “loyalty” and “duty”. Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed. — Robert A. Heinlein
The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn’t. — Stirling Moss
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit. — Arthur David Ritchie
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril…It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public. — Winston Churchill
My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started – and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach. — Ayn Rand
Our rockets can find Halley’s comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality. — Mikhail Gorbachev
You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee — John H. Vandenberg
Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement. — Walter E. Williams
“I’m often asked how I define “”success.”” It’s an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things – achievement and appreciation. One isn’t enough:
Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable.
Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.” — Tim Ferriss
