Achievement Quotes - Page 6

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Fate, Effort, Over You

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• We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

  Richard J. Daley

  Funny, Platitudes, Greater

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• To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

  Brendan Behan

  Food, Beer, Drunk

  Brendan Behan (1968). “The wit of Brendan Behan”

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• I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Fathers Day, Kids

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• 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

  Motivational, Thinking, Discovery

  Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

  Willard Libby

  Goal, Done, World

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• That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, Giving, Choices

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

  Susan L. Taylor

  Women, Empowering, Understanding

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• The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Errors, Long

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• It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Clarity breeds mastery.

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Powerful, Mastery

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2012

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• Focus is more valuable than IQ.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Focus, Valuable

  Twitter post from Mar 5, 2014

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• Don't mistake activity with achievement.

  John Wooden

  Success, Work, Mistake

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

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Happiness, Running

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• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Success, Courage, Work

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.15, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• There's a way to do it better - find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Business, Creativity

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• One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

  Epictetus

  Sports, Philosophical, Perfection

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• Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

  William H. Hastie

  Hope, Despair, Needs

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• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

  Blaise Pascal

  Yesterday, Today, Our Thoughts

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• We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

  Mitch Albom

  Should, Stretching, Short Sighted

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.156, Broadway Books

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  High Heels, Done, Littles

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.94, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

  Michael Korda

  Success, Distance, Finals

  "Success!". p. 272. Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Effort

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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