Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Montapert, Alfred A.

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

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

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Aristotle

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Phaedrus

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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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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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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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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kuralt, Charles

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

Plutarch

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Jung, Carl

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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

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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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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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Ovid

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Churchill, Winston