Best Great Achievement Quotes

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

All great achievements require time.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied – I’m sure with more than a little irritation – ‘In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.’ It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck.

Just like everything else in our lives, with the good comes the bad. It applies to success as well. Success isn’t a destination, it’s a journey – a journey that will be sure to come with lots of great achievements and lots of setbacks. You have the power to decide if those downsides are going to define you in a negative way or a positive way.

We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.

Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

It’s no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

We’re losing film, especially in projection, we’re losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That’s the magic of cinema.

Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.

Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, ‘Enough!’ and standing up to fight.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind’s great achievements in the 20th century.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It’s like denying the cure for polio or something.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

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

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads.

There’s a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller’s Good As Gold. He said: ‘Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.’