Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Jowett, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Achievement

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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.

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.

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Aristotle

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Plutarch

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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

20.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

21.

We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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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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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

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Orwell, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Jung, Carl

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

Phaedrus

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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