Quotes about Achievement
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln
Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
- Aesop
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
- Alain de Botton
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
- Alain de Botton
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
- Alain de Botton
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
- Alain de Botton
Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.
- Alain de Botton
God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.
- Derek Prince
A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.
- Dick Vitale