Motivational Quotes

Achievement

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Weaver, Dennis

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.

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

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

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

10.

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

13.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

14.

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

15.

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

Jung, Carl

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

20.

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

21.

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

Reading, Lady Stella

22.

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

23.

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

Woodruff, Julia

24.

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

Kuralt, Charles

25.

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

Plutarch

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

28.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

29.

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

30.

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

Phaedrus

31.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Welles, Orson

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.

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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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Orwell, George

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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