Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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.

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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

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

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Phaedrus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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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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For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

Winthrop, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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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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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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Warren, Earl

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Plutarch

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

Orwell, George

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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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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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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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Kinder, Jack

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Weaver, Dennis

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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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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.