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

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

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Woodruff, Julia

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Phaedrus

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

Ovid

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Kuralt, Charles

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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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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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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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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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Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Fabricius, George

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Jung, Carl

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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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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Orwell, George

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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 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