Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Warren, Earl

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

Woodruff, Julia

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

Kuralt, Charles

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

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

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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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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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Churchill, Winston

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Plutarch

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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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The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

Phaedrus

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.