Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

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Best Quotes about Achievement

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Woodruff, Julia

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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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 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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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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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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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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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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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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 not the having, it's the getting.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Plutarch

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

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

Weaver, Dennis

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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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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