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

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Aristotle

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

16.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

Woodruff, Julia

19.

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Picasso, Pablo

21.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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

23.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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

28.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Ovid

31.

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

Weaver, Dennis

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Reading, Lady Stella

35.

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

Orwell, George

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

Warren, Earl

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

Plutarch

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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 only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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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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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