Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Jung, Carl

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

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

Ellis, Havelock

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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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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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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Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Woodruff, Julia

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Orwell, George

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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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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Kinder, Jack

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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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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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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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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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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Kuralt, Charles

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

Phaedrus

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