Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Jowett, Benjamin

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Churchill, Winston

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

11.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

15.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

18.

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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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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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Orwell, George

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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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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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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Plutarch

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Phaedrus

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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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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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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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