Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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.

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Thoreau, Henry David

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Weaver, Dennis

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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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Winthrop, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Plutarch

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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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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Aristotle

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

Churchill, Winston

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Jung, Carl

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

Orwell, George

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Ovid

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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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Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Fabricius, George