Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

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

Ovid

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

Ziglar, Zig

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Orwell, George

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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Phaedrus

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Fabricius, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Kinder, Jack

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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