Quotes About Achievement

All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

newly powerful nations, with the exception of Spain, showed themselves as capable of great achievement as the Italians had been. From the sixteenth century onward, the history of European thought is dominated by the Reformation. The Reformation was a complex many-sided movement, and owed its success to a variety of causes. In the main, it was a revolt

only those who slavishly worship success can think that effectiveness is admirable without regard to what is effected.

We cannot admire a social system which allows no scope for individual achievement, and we cannot approve one in which excessive individualism makes the social system unstable.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization .

The practical distinction among passions comes as regards their success: some passions lead to success in what is desired; others, to failure. If you pursue the former, you will be happy; if the latter, unhappy.

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

For example multi-tasking, often a point of pride for modern professionals, has been shown to lower our mental efficiency and result in impaired cognitive function that is worse than from smoking marijuana.46 Likewise the constant deluge of digital information to which we are exposed can result in a debilitating form of neural addiction that gradually narrows our scope of meaningful achievement while creating the illusion that we are actually accomplishing more with our time.

Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

Success breeds confidence.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade

If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.

God's words possess omnipotent achieving and accomplishing power. Our words can have potent achieving and accomplishing power.

He named it Ebenezer, explaining, "The LORD has helped us to this point." 1 Samuel 7:12

This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth … for then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do. Joshua 1:8

When I came into Red Bull, everyone thought, 'He's just the happy, nice guy; he's fast, but he can't race hard with these top guys.' That was a reputation I had to dismiss.

Many families move to Ilford North because of our excellent schools and their reputation for academic achievement.

After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.

I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.

People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested about the club's reputation.

This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.