Quotes about Achievement
To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
— George Bernard Shaw
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
— Elbert Hubbard
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
— Rose Kennedy
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.
— Celine Dion
You cannot lose if you have learned one new lesson.You cannot lose if you have helped one new person.You cannot lose if you have overcome one new obstacle.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
But now my task is smoothly done:I can fly, or I can run.
— John Milton
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do what then thou would'st.
— John Milton
My race of glory run, and race of shame, and I shall shortly be with them at rest.
— John Milton
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
— John Milton
The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.
— John Piper