Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about 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

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

Johnson, Samuel

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Orwell, George

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jung, Carl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

35.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Phaedrus

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Fabricius, George

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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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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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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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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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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto