Quote: For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Author: David Bailey 1938-, British Photographer
Quote: 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.
Author: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937, British Playwright
Quote: 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.
Author: Thomas A. Bennett
Quote: It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Author: Morarji Desai 1896-18, Indian Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Author: Walt Disney 1901-1966, American Artist, Film Producer
Quote: No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
Author: Havelock Ellis 1859-1939, British Psychologist
Quote: Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Author: George Fabricius 1678-1707, Irish Dramatist
Quote: The only way around is through.
Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Author: Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890, Dutch Painter
Quote: If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
Author: A. P. Gouthey
Quote: We will either find a way, or make one.
Author: Hannibal BC 247-182, Carthaginian General, Statesman
Quote: Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Author: Mark Victor Hansen American Motivational Speaker, Author
Quote: My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Author: Helen Hayes 1900-1993, American Actress
Quote: Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Author: Gabriel Heatter 1890-, American Journalist
Quote: The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Author: Etty Hilsum
Quote: 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. We see our past achievements as the end results of
Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.
Author: C. Hoppe
Quote: God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: To spend life for something which outlasts it.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: I want to put a ding in the universe.
Author: Steve Jobs 1955-, American Businessman, Founder of Apple Computers
Quote: Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Author: Benjamin Jowett 1817-1893, British Scholar
Quote: The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Author: Jack Kinder
Quote: Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Author: Charles Kuralt American TV Commentator
Quote: We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Author: Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695, French Poet
Quote: One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
Author: Alan Lakein American Time Management Expert, Author, Trainer
Quote: There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Author: Alphonse De Lamartine 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian
Quote: Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Author: Golo Mann 1909-, German Historian, Son of Thomas Mann
Quote: Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Author: Foster C. Mcclellan
Quote: The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
Author: Alfred A. Montapert American Author
Quote: The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
Author: Dwight Whitney Morrow 1873-1931, American Lawyer, Banker, diplomat
Quote: 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.
Author: Georgia O'Keeffe American painter
Quote: Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''
Quote: I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
Author: Mal Pancoast
Quote: Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Author: Phaedrus c.1-?, Macedonian Inventor and Writer
Quote: I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer
Quote: The journey is the reward.
Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Author: Otto Rank 1884-1939, Vienna-born Psychoanalyst
Quote: The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Author: Lady Stella Reading
Quote: 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.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: 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.
Author: Corinne Roosevelt Robinson 1861-1933, American Poet, Sister of Theodore Roosevelt
Quote: 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.
Author: Eddie Robinson College Football Coach
Quote: I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Author: Dr. Jonas Salk 1914-1995, Virologist, Discovered The First Vaccine Against Poliomyelitis
Quote: The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: ''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.
Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher
Quote: It's not the having, it's the getting.
Author: Elizabeth Taylor 1932-, British-born American Actress
Quote: So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: 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.
Author: Margaret Thatcher 1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90)
Quote: The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.
Author: Barbara Walters 1931-, American TV Personality
Quote: The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Author: Earl Warren 1891-1974, American Politician, Judge