Motivational Quotes

Achievement

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Aristotle

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

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

Welles, Orson

The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Orwell, George

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

11.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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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.

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Weaver, Dennis

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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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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

28.

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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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Kuralt, Charles

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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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