Motivational Quotes

Achievement

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Achievement

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Taylor, Elizabeth

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

Robbins, Anthony

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Churchill, Winston

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

Hoppe, C.

The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Welles, Orson

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Phaedrus

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The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

Jung, Carl

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

Fabricius, George

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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Hill, Napoleon

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.

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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Warren, Earl

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Walters, Barbara

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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Heatter, Gabriel

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If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Ovid

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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

Picasso, Pablo

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Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

Woodruff, Julia

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Where there is a will there is a way. is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Smiles, Samuel

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God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Churchill, Winston

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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Robinson, Eddie

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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

Weaver, Dennis

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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Aristotle

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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,

Weil, Simone

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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Mann, Golo

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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

Ellis, Havelock

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Reading, Lady Stella

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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Jowett, Benjamin

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One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

Lakein, Alan

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Kinder, Jack