Achievement Quotes

 



The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.- Ashley Montagu
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.- Audrey Hepburn
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.- Epictetus
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.- Martha Washington
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.- Eskimo Proverb
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.- Omar Khayyam
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.- Tom Brady
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.- Marcel Proust
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.- Barbara de Angelis
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.- Marcel Pagnol
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.- Franz Schubert
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.- Robert Louis Stevenson
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.- George Bernard Shaw
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.- William E. Gladstone
My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.- Kim Smith
Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.- Gabriel Heatter
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.- Napoleon Hill
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 
Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.- Epictetus 
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.- Steve Prefontaine
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.- Adam Ant
There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.- Gerard Butler
My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.- Alanis Morissette
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.- W. Clement Stone
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.- Edgar Lee Masters
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential? these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.- Eddie Robinson