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Quotes About Achievement

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
~ Katherine Mansfield
It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.
~ Keanu Reeves
Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.
~ Kenyon Cox
Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!
~ Kevin Durant
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.
~ Khalil Gibran
You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.
~ Khem Veasna
Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
~ Kristi Yamaguchi
The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
~ Unknown
To be honest like when you work at something for a long time and then coming to a family of people who support what you do hmm... you are very lucky!
~ Lana Del Rey
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
~ Laura Dern
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I always believed, right from the beginning, if you're going to do something, do it the best. If you're going to work, you want to enjoy it-make a product that you really enjoy selling or owning.
~ Laurence Graff
Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.
~ Lee Clow
To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.
~ Lindsay Lohan
I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.
~ Lindsay Lohan
I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
~ Linford Christie
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
~ Linus Torvalds
Hard work always wins in the end.
~ Lucas Till
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
~ Lucy Larcom
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.
~ Maria Sharapova