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Quotes About Achievement

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
~ Ellen Pompeo
Great actions speak great minds.
~ John Fletcher
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
~ William Hazlitt
We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.
~ Raymond Charles Barker
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
~ Philip Guedalla
Great things are won by great dangers.
~ Herodotus
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
~ Jeb Bush
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
~ Peter Thiel
You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things
~ Victoria Azarenka
Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
~ Bob Geldof
I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.
~ John Isner
One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.
~ Dick Vitale
It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.
~ Scottie Pippen
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
~ Carole King
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
~ Nancy Lopez
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
~ Ernest Renan
The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
~ Bernard-Henri Levy
Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.
~ Richard Paul Evans