#Achievement Quotes

“I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.”

“Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.”

“...lest too light winning make the prize light.”

“Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.”

“How my achievements mock me!”

“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.”

“Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.”

“Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”

“I came, saw, and overcame.”

“What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.”

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

“All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”

“You cannot make a cheap palace.”

“The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.”

“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.”

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”

“Let him be great, and love shall follow him.”

“He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.”

“If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”

“You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.”

“The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.”

“Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.”

“Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype.”

“Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."”

“Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.”

“Success is not something you get out of what you do.”

“I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.”

“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.”

“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.”

“With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.”

“You cannot go higher than you think you can.”

“Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.”

“When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.”

“In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.”

“When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.”

“It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.”

“It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.”

“When you've got a solid commitment and solid objectives, you've got a much better chance of reaching your goal.”

“If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”

“The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.”

“Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.”

“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”

“If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.”

“Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.”

“Success always demands a greater effort.”

“Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.”

“There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.”