Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Ovid

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

Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Welles, Orson

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

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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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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Desai, Morarji

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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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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 greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

Ziglar, Zig

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Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Disney, Walt

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

Plutarch

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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 world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Johnson, Samuel

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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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.

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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Tracy, Brian

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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Warren, Earl

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

Churchill, Winston

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve