Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Aristotle

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

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Phaedrus

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Orwell, George

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Weaver, Dennis

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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