2,199 Quotes About Achievement

I'm excited; it's a good accomplishment, but I can't get too high off it. I'm surprised, because I just want to keep winning. I don't want to focus on that (the award).

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Let me tell you something: Roush getting five cars in, that's a heck of an accomplishment. Good for them. I admire what was done there, and we feel like we can do that, too.

We can't afford to ignore any group. The achievement gap plays a big role in being able to address the skills shortage.

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.

Nor is it out of character that Chicago's grandest achievement- a largely manmade arc of lakefront parks and beaches - began as a mistake. from waste thrown into Lake Michigan a 75-year-old dump.