Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

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

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

Phaedrus

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

15.

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

Orwell, George

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

Plutarch

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

Weaver, Dennis

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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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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

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

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Jung, Carl

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Hoffer, Eric

34.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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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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

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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