Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Kinder, Jack

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Warren, Earl

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Jung, Carl

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Ellis, Havelock

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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 journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

19.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Aristotle

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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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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Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Fabricius, George

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Plutarch

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

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal