Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Warren, Earl

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Kinder, Jack

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

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.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kuralt, Charles

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Phaedrus

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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 journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Jung, Carl

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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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 only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Orwell, George

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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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Woodruff, Julia

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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