Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Woodruff, Julia

Best Quotes about Achievement

We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Welles, Orson

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

Jowett, Benjamin

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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.

13.

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

27.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

29.

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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

31.

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

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

Kinder, Jack

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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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

37.

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Phaedrus

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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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.