Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Plutarch

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Phaedrus

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

28.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Orwell, George

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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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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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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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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.

39.

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney