True Achievement Quotes

I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.

We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.

He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.