Quotes about Achievement

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."
-- A. P. Gouthey

"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
-- Alfred A. Montapert

"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."
-- Aristotle

"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
-- David Bailey

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."
-- Dr. Jonas Salk

"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit."
-- Dwight Whitney Morrow

"Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
-- George Fabricius

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
-- Golo Mann

"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."
-- Mal Pancoast

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
-- Margaret Thatcher

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."
-- Winston Churchill