Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ovid

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Phaedrus

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

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

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

10.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

11.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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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 only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Kinder, Jack

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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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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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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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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Plutarch

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

39.

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

41.

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Warren, Earl