Quotes about Achievement
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
— Booker T. Washington
The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.
— John Bunyan
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
— Eric Liddell
The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.
— Myles Munroe
Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.
— Jennifer Lopez
I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.
— Jennifer Lopez
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
— Emily Bronte
I can't rest now, Nelly, although I'm so tired. You may as well tell a man who's struggling through the sea to rest within an arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.
— Emily Bronte
In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.
— Epictetus
For it is always true that to whatever point the perfecting of anything leads us, progress is an approach towards this point.
— Epictetus