Quotes about Achievement
Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
— Aesop
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
— Alain de Botton
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
— Alain de Botton
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
— Alain de Botton
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
— Alain de Botton
Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.
— Alain de Botton
God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.
— Derek Prince
A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.
— Dick Vitale
Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Monasticism was represented as an individual achievement which the mass of the laity could not be expected to emulate. By thus limiting the application of the commandments of Jesus to a restricted group of specialists.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up the rain.
— Dolly Parton
But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.
— Dolly Parton