Achievement Quotes - page 5

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)
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and ... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. View quote
Carl Jung
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity. View quote
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed. View quote
John Howard
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion; See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious. View quote
William Dean Howells
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Don't mistake activity with achievement. View quote
John Wooden
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs. View quote
Stanley Cavell
To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised. (Elbert Hubbard)
Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement. View quote
Hal Abelson
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. View quote
Winston Churchill
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half. View quote
Winston Churchill
We must recognise that we have a great treasure to guard; that the inheritance in our possession represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause? View quote
Winston Churchill
The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement. View quote
Ben Carson
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. View quote
John Keats
Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that. View quote
John Galsworthy
The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community. View quote
Peter Drucker
An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement. (Peter Drucker)
Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is. View quote
Peter Drucker
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. View quote
Henry Ford
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. View quote
C. S. Lewis
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel