Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Orwell, George

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

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.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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 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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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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 not the having, it's the getting.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Jung, Carl

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

Warren, Earl

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

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Woodruff, Julia

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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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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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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Kuralt, Charles

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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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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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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 world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Morrow, Dwight Whitney

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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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