Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

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

We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

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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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Phaedrus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Warren, Earl

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Orwell, George

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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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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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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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve