Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phillips Brooks

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

Polykarp Kusch

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

Joseph Conrad

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

Lindsey Vonn

I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.

Pearl Bailey

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The house praises the carpenter.

Lin Yutang

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

Joseph Murphy

Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A wish is a desire without energy

Owen D. Young

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

Reid Hoffman

It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.

Woody Allen

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

Will Durant

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

William Feather

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

Samuel Beckett

Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Roger Ebert

In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.

Willard Libby

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

Wilson Mizner

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

W. Clement Stone

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.

Zadie Smith

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

William Sloane Coffin

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

Winston Churchill

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

Rick Warren

Living for God's glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives.

Vijender Singh

Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

Vijender Singh

I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.

W. Somerset Maugham

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.