Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Weaver, Dennis

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Hill, Napoleon

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Orwell, George

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

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

11.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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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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

15.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Warren, Earl

18.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Aristotle

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

25.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Welles, Orson

26.

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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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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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Ellis, Havelock

34.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Phaedrus

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Plutarch

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Jung, Carl

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

49.

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

Ovid