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

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Warren, Earl

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Orwell, George

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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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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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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ovid

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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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Don't 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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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Kinder, Jack

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

Plutarch

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

Phaedrus

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

Jung, Carl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Jowett, Benjamin

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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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It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.