Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Warren, Earl

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Warren, Earl

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

Ovid

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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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

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

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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

28.

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

31.

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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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

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

Aristotle

35.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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 your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

Ziglar, Zig

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woodruff, Julia

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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