Quotes: Achievement

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.