Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

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

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

Plutarch

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

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Hill, Napoleon

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

We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Aristotle

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

Fabricius, George

10.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

11.

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.

12.

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

Kuralt, Charles

13.

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

Orwell, George

14.

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

Woodruff, Julia

15.

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

Jung, Carl

16.

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

17.

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

Warren, Earl

18.

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 only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

20.

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

Reading, Lady Stella

21.

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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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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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

24.

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

26.

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

Phaedrus

27.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Picasso, Pablo

30.

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

31.

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

Ellis, Havelock

32.

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

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

35.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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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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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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

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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

Weaver, Dennis

48.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.