Achievement Quotes

No matter who you talk to, they're like, "Oh, Google today was great. I found exactly what I needed." Somehow we've done a really good job.

No one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can't be done.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life's losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish.

I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close.

The greatest pleasure I've had is trying to do something that everybody says could not be done.

On behalf of the British people I salute the skill and courage which have brought man to the moon. May this endeavour increase the knowledge and well-being of mankind.

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

By 1994, PepsiCo was the fifteenth-biggest US company, with annual revenue of $25 billion. It sold drinks and food in more than 150 countries and employed 450,000 people.

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity, and integrity among people and among nations.

The work of Dr. Salk is in the highest tradition of selfless and dedicated medical research. He has provided a means for the control of a dread disease... by helping scientists in other countries with technical information; by offering to them the strains of seed virus... by welcoming them to his laboratory that they may gain a fuller knowledge... his achievement, a credit to our entire scientific community, does honor to all the people of the United States.

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.