Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Achievement

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

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

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Phaedrus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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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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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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Plutarch

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Fabricius, George

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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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto