Motivational Quotes

Achievement

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

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Best Quotes about Achievement

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

Aristotle

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Weaver, Dennis

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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The journey is the reward.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

James, William

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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

Warren, Earl

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

Woodruff, Julia

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Pancoast, Mal

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

Jobs, Steve

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Reading, Lady Stella

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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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Don't mistake activity for achievement.

Wooden, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Jowett, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Rank, Otto

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

Orwell, George

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

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Fabricius, George

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Phaedrus

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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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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