Achievement Quotes - page 2

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. (Kenneth Clark)
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. View quote
Golda Meir
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.[citation needed]. View quote
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations. View quote
Winston Churchill
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. View quote
Nicholas Murray Butler
You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life. View quote
Steffi Graf
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions. View quote
Dale T. Mortensen
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. (James Henry Breasted)
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. View quote
Claude M. Bristol
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success. View quote
Bo Bennett
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. View quote
Bo Bennett
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. View quote
Bo Bennett
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. View quote
Hu Shih
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. View quote
Bo Jackson
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. View quote
Margaret Spellings
Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me. View quote
Sheena Easton
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. View quote
Thomas Haden Church
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. (Vash Young)
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. View quote
David Rockefeller
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! View quote
Michael Pollan
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. View quote
Alain de Botton
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue. View quote
Sinclair Lewis