Achievement Quotes - page 4

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. (B. F. Skinner)
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. View quote
Helen Hayes
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? View quote
Michael Palin
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important. View quote
Elle Macpherson
One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life's losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves. View quote
Donald Trump
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is...the higher achievement. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters. View quote
Camille Paglia
For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight. View quote
Melanie Phillips
Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world. View quote
Vannevar Bush
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. (Napoleon Hill)
Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling. View quote
Iain Banks
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. View quote
Brendan Behan
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. View quote
Oscar Hammerstein II
The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it. View quote
John Prescott
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination. View quote
Edwin Howard Armstrong
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. View quote
Lin Yutang
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." View quote
Bertrand Russell
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. (Benjamin Franklin)
More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement. View quote
Winfield Scott
It was a great achievement of the early chemists - with the crude experimental techniques available also with the ever-astonishing power of human reason (as potent then as now) - to discover this reduction of the world to its components, the chemical elements. Such reduction does not destroy its charm but adds understanding to sensation, and this understanding only deepens our delight. View quote
Peter Atkins
All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green... View quote
Ray Bradbury