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

Top 10 Famous Ability & Achievement Quotes

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

- Helen Keller

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock, a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

- Russell Baker

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

- Werner Heisenberg

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

- Mason Cooley

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

- Edmund Burke

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

- William Van Horne

The best is the enemy of the good.

- Voltaire

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

- Niels Bohr

Self Help, Self Motivational Quotes

Patience is passion tamed.

-- Lyman Abbott


Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in
the past.

-- Tyron Edwards


Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through
which you must see the world.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright


Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

-- J. Andrews


Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

-- J. Andrews

Best Thoughts on Achievement

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
-- Orison Swett Marden

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
-- Napoleon Hill

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
-- Confucius

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
-- Helen Hayes

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn