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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Kuralt, Charles

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

12.

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

Jowett, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Aristotle

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

17.

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

18.

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

19.

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

Plutarch

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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.

21.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Orwell, George

25.

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

Warren, Earl

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

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

Picasso, Pablo

33.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Churchill, Winston

36.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

37.

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

Ziglar, Zig

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Ovid

40.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Welles, Orson

41.

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

Fabricius, George

43.

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 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

45.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

49.

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

Ellis, Havelock

50.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal