Meaningful Achievement Quotes

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

It would be meaningful if I can get a gold medal in my parents' country.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

I'm not really concerned with the outer success.

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.

Obviously, I want my kids to be happy, and I believe that they can be super successful at whatever they want to do, but don't make the successful part more important than the process of doing it. Especially if it's an artistic endeavor.

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

I don't want easy success. It's boring.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

When you work for something it will eventually happen and it will be lasting, whereas when things are easy they do not always hold the same value.