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
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