Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Morrow, Dwight Whitney

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Kinder, Jack

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

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Plutarch

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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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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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Phaedrus

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

Orwell, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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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Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.

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

Jung, Carl

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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 journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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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