Quotes about achievement

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

Morrow, Dwight Whitney on achievement
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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 on achievement
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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."

Orwell, George on achievement
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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."

Ovid on achievement
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"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."

Pancoast, Mal on achievement
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on achievement
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"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."

Phaedrus on achievement
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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on achievement
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on achievement
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

Rank, Otto on achievement
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

Reading, Lady Stella on achievement
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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 on achievement
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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 on achievement
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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 on achievement
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"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."

Salk, Dr. Jonas on achievement
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"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on achievement
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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

Shaw, George Bernard on achievement
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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 on achievement
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"Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on achievement
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"It's not the having, it's the getting."

Taylor, Elizabeth on achievement
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"So much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on achievement
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"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."

Thatcher, Margaret on achievement
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"The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?"

Thoreau, Henry David on achievement
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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 on achievement
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"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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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 on achievement   

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

Warren, Earl on achievement
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"To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working."

Weaver, Dennis on achievement
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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 on achievement
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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 on achievement
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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 on achievement   

"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"Never mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done."

Woodruff, Julia on achievement
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"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."

Ziglar, Zig on achievement
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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. on achievement
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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. on achievement
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