Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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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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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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

13.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Phaedrus

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Plutarch

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

21.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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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 only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Kinder, Jack

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