Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

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Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reading, Lady Stella

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Kuralt, Charles

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

13.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 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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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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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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

22.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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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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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Johnson, Samuel

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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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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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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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.

42.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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Never 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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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Jung, Carl

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