Quotes About Achievement

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search for knowledge is what brought men to the moon; but it took knowledge already acquired to make it possible to get there. How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

Houston, the Eagle has landed.

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

All of us long for success throughout our lives, but we should long to see greater significance later in life and not see it wasted on our younger years. Success, in and of itself, is a heavy burden to bear; to bear it without a firm foundation of maturity and strong character can lead to great personal destruction. I

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say "I'll never be good". You can become better! and one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.

Keep on starting and finishing will take care of itself.

Only a mediocre man is always at his best

In fact, the assumption that smartness is something you "have" had led to such nonsensical terms as over-and underachievers.

Neil S. Plakcy

New York Times

Cao reveled in the acclaim and the prospect of a general's stars. "I kill fifty Viet Cong today," he would announce to reporters coming to the command post. He began to learn the public relations game perhaps too well.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

To win the game was to leave it.

Why waste yourself doing something pointless, when you can spend your life being productive in your own eyes?

Neil Young David Briggs

I think we believed that what we'd achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

Charlie and I both felt very adult that last year of college, very experienced: I think we believed that what we'd achieved academically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

The next best thing to winning is losing At least you've been in the race.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.