Achievement Quotes for Students

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. 

- Conrad Hilton

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come. 

- C.S. Lewis

There are no shortcuts to life's greatest achievements.
- Anonymous

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. 

- Woodrow Wilson

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. 

- Frederick Pierce

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. 

- Ayn Rand

Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement. 

- Leo J. Muir