Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Achievement

The only way around is through.

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Reading, Lady Stella

It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Churchill, Winston

We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kuralt, Charles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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Never mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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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 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

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jung, Carl

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I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

Hoppe, C.

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

Ovid

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Warren, Earl

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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 journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.