Quotes about Achievement
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
— Hannah More
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
— Hannah More
This synthesis of God and the world is a divine idea, which is older and more deeply hidden than all things and for which everything else remains simply an approach, a means of achievement.64
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
When he thought he was doing something that made a difference to people, he could bear any burden [Moses]. When he lost that sense of achievement, he became too discouraged to keep on doing the hard things.
— Harold S. Kushner
True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.
— Harold S. Kushner
There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.
— Harris Faulkner
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
— Harry S. Truman
The 'C' students run the world.
— Harry S. Truman
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
— Leo Burnett
That feeling of being the NBA Champion is really unparalleled, because you're the best in the world. Without question. How many people can say that in any profession?
— Bill Bradley
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
— Theodore Roosevelt
When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down. Afterwards, you feel a little bit lonely, a bit of depression mentally. Because it's so much stress and emotion, so many people around - and then it's completely empty.
— Stan Wawrinka