Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Taylor, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Jung, Carl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

25.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

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

Ovid

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

Weaver, Dennis

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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