Quotes on Achievement

The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.

Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life.

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

Some people want everything to be perfect before they're willing to commit... But commitment always precedes achievement.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement.

America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

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.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.