Achievement Quotes

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.

You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don’t claim that one.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.