Achievement Quotes

Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The reality of getting it done is more satisfying than the dream of getting it perfect.

The reason so many people give up is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

There's nothing we can't do if we work hard, never sleep, and shirk all other responsibilities in our lives.

"Great spiritual achievements depend upon faithfulness in small things."

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

I think you have to decide whether achievement is the route to self-esteem or whether self-esteem is the route to achievement. I think you guys think self-esteem is the route to achievement, and I think you're wrong.

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Don't forget it all began with a mouse.

Having achieved what I set out to achieve, it is time for me to get out of the way and allow fresh thinking and impetus to drive forward the [new] strategy.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

And yet, she reminded herself, look at all the remarkable things she and Doon have done! It wasn’t because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because they used the ordinary powers everyone had; the power of courage, the power of kindness, and the powers of curiosity and knowledge.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.