Achievemnt Quotes

Here are some selected inspirational and motivational quotes about achievement. It was hard for me not to get inspired and a bit motivated also by these beautiful quotes by some great people. Tell us what do you feel about these quotes by commenting.

“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham

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

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
Edward William Bok

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Unknown

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill

The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing.
Benjamin Franklin

Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig Ziglar

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Abraham Lincoln

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Bo Bennett

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone

Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Wilferd A. Peterson

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Powell Clayton

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
Edgar Lee Masters

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

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

Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
Katharine Anthony

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas M. Butler

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
Michael Korda

The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.
Mack R. Douglas

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
Mack R. Douglas

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student’s achievement.
James S. Coleman

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
George Washington Carver

People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do.
Lewis Cass

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
Frank A. Clark

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis. D. Brandeis

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor

We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau

To get what you want; stop doing what isn’t working.
Dennis Weaver

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Henry Drummond

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

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

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
Loretta Young

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Denis Waitley

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
David Feherty

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
Susan Taylor

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Jack Kinder

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller

The future is not a gift – it is an achievement.
Harry Lauder

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjöld

I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
Jean-Claude Kelly

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost