Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Achievement

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

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

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Phaedrus

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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Jung, Carl

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

Woodruff, Julia

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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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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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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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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 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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fabricius, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Orwell, George

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

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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