Top 100 Quotes About Achievement And Success
#1. The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
Lin Yutang
#2. The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.
Nathaniel Branden
#3. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
#4. You must have goals for your life. Do not fear take a bold step to realize your goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.
Dennis Bakke
#7. Success and achievement come from your belief in yourself. You can see and be inspired by my belief when doctors said I'd never do XYZ. Discover Nobody-thought-i-could-do-it-but-i-showed-them-and-so-can-you-amy-rankin/1114910767?ean=2940016304205
Amy Rankin
#8. On SUCCESS: "Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers." (TM)
Nanci McGraw
#9. How we talk effects our lives in two very important ways. It shows how we think of others and how we think of ourselves. The fascinating thing is they always run together.
John Patrick Hickey
#10. Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.
Lewis Howard Latimer
#11. Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
#12. Celebrate every small achievement and gain strength for grandeur things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.
Charles Stanley
#14. My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
Clayton Christensen
#15. Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.
Tarang Sinha
#16. Belief in yourself comes from a positive attitude that sees life as worth living and that you have a wonderful part to play in it.
John Patrick Hickey
#17. In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
Erica Jong
#19. Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it.
Tim Fargo
#20. Words of others, helps weave our feathers.
Bmmite
#21. Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. Reading is the multiplier of success. Reading instantly gives you access to a treasure trove of wisdom and experience laid out by those who have gone before you, especially those who have already walked the road you're walking on right now.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#23. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
James Heckman
#24. Whatever achievements and successes I've had didn't happen overnight. It is all a product of guidance, hard work, careful planning, and intense, passionate execution over many years. (p. 69)
Injap Sia
#25. Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.
Choa Kok Sui
#26. Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made.
Auliq Ice
#27. First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#28. happiness is the precursor to success, not merely the result. And that happiness and optimism actually fuel performance and achievement - giving us the competitive edge that I call the Happiness Advantage.
Shawn Achor
#29. A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda
#31. When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.
Richie Norton
#32. Your achievements and success are dependent on a well thought through plan of action.
Sunday Adelaja
#33. The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book. This
Brian Tracy
#35. Gather all your effort to achieve a single goal and you will be bound to succeed
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Don't be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.
Abhijit Naskar
#37. The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops.
John Patrick Hickey
#38. Asking questions is not a matter of weakness or of being uninformed. In fact, people who ask a lot of questions tend to achieve more and learn more than those who do not.
John Patrick Hickey
#39. Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long; there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#40. Excessive talking about our plans and dreams lessens our energy to do what is needed to achieve them.
John Patrick Hickey
#41. Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible
Luthfy Es-Haq
#42. God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you.
John Patrick Hickey
#43. When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
Eustace Budgell
#44. Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We must purposely strive to move ahead and achieve.
John Patrick Hickey
#45. Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action.
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. The answer is in your dreams, the ones you dream while you're asleep and the ones you dream while you're awake.
Toni Sorenson
#47. I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.
Will Smith
#48. A determined soul and indomitable spirit are necessary for any achievement.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. When one is at the edge and falls then it's a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that's what's life is about.
Amit Abraham
#50. Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things.
John Patrick Hickey
#51. There is nothing better in the whole world than to know you have set a goal and achieved it.
John Patrick Hickey
#52. Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers.
John Patrick Hickey
#53. If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.
John Patrick Hickey
#54. Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it.
Steve Maraboli
#55. Because of the way I've made my money or the way I've conducted myself in public to get success, it doesn't make me any better a person. So I always thought money and achievement would make me a more legitimate person, where my family seems to think it's all about actions.
Jim Jefferies
#56. True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.
Nur Sakinah Thomas
#57. Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.
James Allen
#59. In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
David Landes
#60. Work, Work and work, until you either succeed in your mission, or you die!
Abhijit Naskar
#61. Confidence comes from within. You teach people how to perceive you, by your own example of how you perceive yourself. If you believe in yourself that confidence shines through and others will believe in you too.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#62. Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter.
John Patrick Hickey
#63. My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.
Barack Obama
#65. There is a sacrifice behind every success and every achievement.
Euginia Herlihy
#66. It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.
Washington Irving
#67. My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.
Nel Noddings
#68. Success-minded people tend to be successful, confident, and friendly because they act successful, confident and friendly. People feel comfortable around positive people because positive people feel comfortable with themselves.
John Patrick Hickey
#70. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#71. 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
#72. Always work harder than other people are willing to work. Sweat more, endure more pain, and then reap the rewards of success and achievement.
Robert Cheeke
#73. It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.
John Patrick Hickey
#74. Our body is the vehicle that we are given for our journey and if we do not take care of it, we will find ourselves broken down on the side of the road facing costly and time-consuming repairs.
John Patrick Hickey
#75. Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
Napoleon Hill
#76. Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
Bryant McGill
#77. Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.
Jim Rohn
#78. Whether we are working to improve our health, wealth, personal achievement, or professional enterprise, the difference between triumphant success or bitter failure lies in the degree of our commitment to seek out, study, and apply those half-dozen things
Jim Rohn
#79. Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge
Derric Yuh Ndim
#80. Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.
Robert Forman Horton
#81. Without question, positive thinking will do more for you, will make you feel better, do better, let you have more fun, and be liked by more people than negative thinking ever will.
John Patrick Hickey
#82. There is only one way to success, wealth and achievement and that is through a lot of hard work.
John Patrick Hickey
#83. Great achievements are nothing more than a collection of small accomplishments.
Justin Young
#84. What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.
Mike Schmoker
#85. Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.
Mas Oyama
#86. I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
Nader Al-Masri
#87. How you define an event produces emotion
and determines how you feel going forward
Derric Yuh Ndim
#88. If a man realizes who he is, he understands that if he must, he can start from the beginning and achieve success again
Sunday Adelaja
#89. Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.
Simon Sinek
#90. Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#91. William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.
Jim Rohn
#92. Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#93. Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them.
Erin Kissane
#94. No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.
J.R.D. Tata
#95. Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time.
John Patrick Hickey
#96. There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness,
health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities
waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good.
Jim Rohn
#97. All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!
Brian Tracy
#98. Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.
Criss Jami
#99. Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple
truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your
most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the
key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in
life.
Brian Tracy
