Top 1200 Great Achievement Quotes & Sayings

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

To be the first Nigerian to play for Manchester United is a great achievement for me which I am going to cherish for the rest of my life because it's not easy to dream something and it comes true. It's a great feeling.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

It's a great achievement for a 29-year-old to play 100 Tests.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.

It's an achievement I can be happy about - if you call getting old and still being in a job an achievement.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

If you dont measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.

One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.

To be captain of such a huge club like Chelsea is a great personal achievement.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

The success of Indian music at the Oscars is a great achievement.

Beating a record for the oldest World Cup player means that it's an achievement for my country before it's an achievement for me.

The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

I want to compliment Francesco Totti: scoring 206 goals is a great achievement. It does not matter that he has beat me, as he is a great player.

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.

I saw 'Avatar' and liked it very much. It was a great achievement.