Achievement Quotes
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Inspirational Achievement Quotes
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. A. P. Gouthey
Never mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ~Nicholas M. Butler
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. Samuel Johnson
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Charles Kuralt
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. ~Luc de Clapiers
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. George Orwell
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. Lady Stella Reading
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. Jean De La Fontaine
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. Gabriel Heatter
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. George Eliot
It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. Charles F. Kettering
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. Eddie Robinson
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Oliver Wendell Holmes
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. Etty Hilsum
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Havelock Ellis
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. ~Kurt Lewin
If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either. Anonymous
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh
Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. George Fabricius
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. Napoleon Hill
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms. ~Alex Lifeson
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill
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. Thomas A. Bennett
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. George Bernard Shaw
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. Alfred A. Montapert
To spend life for something which outlasts it. William James
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. Confucius
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! Orson Welles
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Otto Rank
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. ~Nathaniel Branden
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. Foster C. Mcclellan
It's not the having, it's the getting. Elizabeth Taylor
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. Alphonse De Lamartine
The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. Carl Jung
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. Orison Swett Marden
I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement. ~Natalia Vodianova
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. Brian Tracy
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epictetus
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. David Bailey
We will either find a way, or make one. Hannibal
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. Earl Warren
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. Dr. Jonas Salk
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. Georgia O'Keeffe
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. Phaedrus
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. Aristotle
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. Dennis Weaver
Don't mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden
Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done. Julia Woodruff
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. Mark Victor Hansen
The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. Anonymous
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. Margaret Thatcher
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. ~Bo Bennett
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Dwight Whitney Morrow
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Jack Kinder
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. Benjamin Jowett
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. ~Harold Taylor
It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude. Zig Ziglar
Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest. Anonymous
God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. Elbert Hubbard
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. Golo Mann
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. ~Candace Bushnell
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. Georg C. Lichtenberg
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. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso
So much to do, so little done, such things to be. Lord Alfred Tennyson
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. Ovid
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. Eric Hoffer
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. ~Michael Korda
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. Barbara Walters
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. Sir James M. Barrie
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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. Alan Lakein
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. Mal Pancoast
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