Achievement Quotes

"The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history."

- James Kip Finch

"Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money."

- John Prebble

"I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography."

- Chris Cornell

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

- Booker T. Washington

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know it is impossible."

- Maya Angelou

"Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple."

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

- Jonas Salk

"The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience."

- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

"The victory [on the law of refraction] was still with Monsieur Descartes since in effect his opinion was confirmed to be true even by reasoning different from his, after all the most famous conquerors did not consider themselves less happy when victory was obtained by auxiliary troops instead of by their own."

- Pierre de Fermat

"It was about three o’clock at night when the final result of the calculation [demonstrating the sensibility of matrix mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock. That was ‘the night of Helgoland.’"

- Werner Heisenberg

"Great scientists usually show up when and where in the history of science they are needed."

- Isidor Rabi

"Every day women and men become legends."

- Common

"My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along."

- Denise van Outen

"The best accountants are the architects of financial legacies."

- Laura Anderson

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution."

- Aristotle

"In estimating the greatness of a man’s lifework, it is fair to take into consideration the difficulties under which the man has accomplished it."

- F.B. Meyer

"Consistency in voice and expectations gives you a chance to go from average, to good, to really good, to maybe even great."

- Luke Fickell

"If we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

- Georg Fabricius

"What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience."

- George Louis de Buffon

""The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.""

- E.M. Bounds

"Memories are not created from things you said you would do. They are built from things you have done."

"Never underestimate the power of small successes."

- Anonymous

"Imagine. Believe. Achieve."

"Every play is a chance to prove yourself."

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