Quotes tagged ‘Achievement’

“Pam Beesly: Hey, Dwight. I'm collecting resolution cards. Dwight Schrute: Not doing that. Pam Beesly: Why not? Dwight Schrute: I've achieved plenty, and there's no better than the best.”

— Greg Daniels, Dwight Schrute, Rainn Wilson, imdb.com

“What will be the next thing that challenges us, Toby? That makes us go farther and work harder? You know that when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century? Surely we can do it again, as we did in the time when our eyes looked towards th…”

— Aaron Sorkin, Jed Bartlet, Martin Sheen, imdb.com

“There’s a certain pride in knowing that you achieved what you came to do.”

— Axl Rose, rollingstone.com

“I just don’t know why they’re shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to st…”

— Laurence Marks, Larry Gelbart, Hawkeye Pierce, Alan Alda, imdb.com

“I believe that the human spirit is indomitable. If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams is something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is n…”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“It was only natural that the hardships of his youth should enhance his subsequent achievement in his eyes, particularly since it resulted exclusively from his own energy and iron diligence. It was the pride of the self-made man which made him want his son to rise to the same position in life, or, of…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“First, his personal achievement. I am not concerned here about marches and boycotts, great and important though they were, but rather about a man who struggled to conquer in himself both fear and hate, two of humanity’s most destructive and limiting emotions. I want to stress struggled and conquered…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct of achievement. Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently…”

— Ray Kroc, amazon.com

“You always have to see things in a positive light, and we achieved a lot of things.”

— Rafael Benitez, fourfourtwo.com

“There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.”

— George Washington Carver, christianquotes.info

“There is no short cut to achievement.”

— George Washington Carver, goodreads.com

“If a people or a nation can reach their objectives by disciplined and peaceful means, it would be a most honourable and admirable achievement.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“Everybody that I’ve ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.”

— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com

“All that I am … I owe to the Air Force.”

— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com

“Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.”

— Ray Lewis, books.google.com

“I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.”

— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org

“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

— Abraham Maslow, goodreads.com

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“To achieve style, begin by affecting none.”

— E. B. White, amazon.com