Quotes About Achievement

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

Logic will get you from point A to point B. Imagination and hard work will take you everywhere else.

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of relativity is overwhelming indeed; also his achievement of the system of absolute measurement in the field of electromagnetism. In my opinion it is impossible to achieve a coherent objective picture of the world on the basis of concepts which are taken more or less from inner psychological experience.

If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, examine his achievements. For to the discoverer in that field, the constructions of his imagination appear so necessary and so natural that he is apt to treat them not as the creations of his thoughts but as given realities.

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

N'essayez pas de devenir un homme qui a du succès. Essayez de devenir un homme qui a de la valeur.

If people are not laughing at your goals,then your goals are too small

While it is true that scientific results are entirely independent from religious or moral considerations, those individuals to whom we owe the great creative achievements of science were all of them imbued with the truly religious conviction that this universe of ours is something perfect and susceptible to the rational striving for knowledge.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

If you only do what you can do, you can never be more than what you are now.

Bisognerebbe evitare di predicare ai giovani il successo nella solita forma come lo scopo principale nella vita. Il motivo più importante per lavorare a scuola e nella vita è il piacere nel lavoro, piacere nel suo risultato, e la consapevolezza del valore del risultato per la comunità.