Top 1200 Lifetime Achievement Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.

If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

In 1990 at Harveys, when I was 28 years old, I became the youngest chef to win two Michelin stars. It was a huge achievement.

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

2010 was an incredible year for me. I won the Best of the Super Juniors, and went on to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title. That was an unbelievable achievement.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.

For me, fitness is a lifetime commitment; I don't remember ever being out of shape.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.

As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat.

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

We have a lot to learn from the Tudor education system. It had diversity, placed rigorous demands on its students, and encouraged high achievement.

As far as being the longest-reigning X Division champion, it's a pretty remarkable achievement, due to all the men who have held it over the years.

You can, maybe, do something like Annapurna once in a lifetime. Then don't try to do it again.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself was a huge achievement.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely have been blown away.

Jose Aldo's a legend. He accomplished many great things in his lifetime.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

I'm no role model, but I thought if I showed my frailties, which I had turned around into achievement, I could help many others.

Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now.

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

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.

If this had ever happened before, it couldn't be happening now. That's what they mean by 'once in a lifetime'.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.