Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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.

Best Quotes about Achievement

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Picasso, Pablo

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Aristotle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warren, Earl

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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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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Kinder, Jack

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Hoppe, C.

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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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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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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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Ovid

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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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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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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