Quotes by Achievement All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution. Asher Brown Durand achievement color artist We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting. Aung San Suu Kyi fate effort achievement Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting. Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal revelations achievement realization Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine. Ayn Rand fountainhead achievement giving It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all. Ayn Rand rotten achievement lucky It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. Ayn Rand achievement self thinking Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand achievement heart hands Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. Ayn Rand productive-work achievement goal Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it. Ayn Rand achievement expression desire Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. Ayn Rand achievement loneliness mind She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others. Ayn Rand achievement communication sight Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing. Ayrton Senna achievement giving people There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of achievement for making it through society. It's cementing allegiance to authority at a very young age. Ayshay achievement giving people Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements B. F. Skinner achievement society practice The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change. B. F. Skinner achievement sound education Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. Baltasar Gracian confidence achievement fall Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you. Baltasar Gracian achievement fashion promise We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter. Barack Obama achievement daughter dream Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked on and I think is something that you should be very proud of. Barack Obama achievement people thinking This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making. Barack Obama achievement war years «1234567891011»