Achievement – Quotes

Whenever we dig down

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour. Galina Ulanova

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. Gail Devers

Contemplation and wisdom are

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. Gabriel Marcel

The best job goes

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. G. M. Trevelyan

As history proves abundantly,

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. G. H. Hardy

I count Maxwell and

I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among real mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as useless as the theory of numbers. G. H. Hardy

The proud depend upon

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. Ezra Taft Benson

Praise your children more

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement. Ezra Taft Benson

In these sacred documents

In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from others. Here is our basis for freedom of individual achievement. Our Constitution with its Bill of Rights guarantees to all our people the greatest freedom ever enjoyed by the people of any great … Read more

There are few things

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. Ezra Pound