Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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.

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

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Phaedrus

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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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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Orwell, George

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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 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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Bennett, Thomas A.

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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Plutarch

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Kuralt, Charles

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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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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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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve