Achievement Quotes - Page 2

Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attained something.' All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. We can really learn something.

But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others just like it. My life of success was not what made this morning so glorious -- all my achievements meant nothing in God's economy. "No, the real legacy of my life was my biggest failure -- that I was an ex-convict. My greatest humiliation -- being sent to prison -- was the beginning of God's greatest use of my life; He chose the one thing in which I could not glory for His glory.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.