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

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

Johnson, Samuel

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Phaedrus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Warren, Earl

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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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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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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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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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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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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

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

Plutarch

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

Jung, Carl

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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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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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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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

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Orwell, George

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

Woodruff, Julia

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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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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

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John