Motivational Quotes

Achievement

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Aristotle

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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

Kinder, Jack

10.

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

11.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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

13.

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

15.

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

Weaver, Dennis

16.

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

17.

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

Plutarch

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

24.

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

Ziglar, Zig

25.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

26.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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

Woodruff, Julia

29.

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

30.

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

31.

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

Ellis, Havelock

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Phaedrus

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Fabricius, George

41.

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.

42.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Mann, Golo

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

Jung, Carl

44.

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

Orwell, George

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Churchill, Winston