Achievement Quotes

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

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.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement
John Hope

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

You have to do what others won't. To achieve what others don't.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson

Man achieves in life only by commanding the capabilities nature has given him, or by creating them within himself by education and by knowing how to profit by the difficulties encountered.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

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.
Ethel Barrymore

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.







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