Motivational Quotes

Achievement

It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Aristotle

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

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

Phaedrus

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fabricius, George

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Welles, Orson

25.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ovid

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

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Kuralt, Charles

35.

Never 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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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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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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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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 journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Orwell, George

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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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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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Ellis, Havelock