Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Achievement

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Warren, Earl

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

Churchill, Winston

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Welles, Orson

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

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Kuralt, Charles

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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.

15.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Orwell, George

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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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 journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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.