Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

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

Kuralt, Charles

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

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.

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

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

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Plutarch

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Warren, Earl

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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Orwell, George

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

Fabricius, George

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Woodruff, Julia

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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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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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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon