Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Fabricius, George

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Aristotle

11.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Orwell, George

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Weaver, Dennis

30.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Jung, Carl

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

Churchill, Winston

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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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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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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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.

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Reading, Lady Stella

49.

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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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