Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Fabricius, George

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Ziglar, Zig

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Welles, Orson

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

Plutarch

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Warren, Earl

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

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

27.

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

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

Fabricius, George

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Phaedrus

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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Jung, Carl

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

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal