Quotes About Achievement

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.

If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.