Achievement Quotes

Proverb - “Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.”

F.M. Young - “It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.”

Stewart E. White - “Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.”

Unknown - “The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing.”

Harold Taylor - “The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”

W. Clement Stone - “All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.”

Grace Speare - “Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, thej oy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.”

Charles Sorenson - “It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.”

Dr. Jonas Edward Salk - “I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”

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Winfred Rhodes - “Life's greatest achievement is the continual re-making of yourself so that at last you know how to live.”

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John Rennie - “All achievement is the triumph of persistence.”

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Dr. Theodor Reik - “There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words ... love and achievement.... Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.... The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.”

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Ayn Rand - “She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.”

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Plutarch - “Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle.”

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Norman Vincent Peale - “The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.”

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Paul Nitze - “One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.”

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Jack Nicklaus - “Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation.”

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Robert Francis Kennedy - “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

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C. Hoppe - “I hope 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, 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.”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - “With all humility, I think, 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.”

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William E. Holler - “You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind... Not all of a sudden, perhaps, not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement.... But you can do it gradually—day by day and play by play—if you want to do it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.”

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Eric Hoffer - “No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.”

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Eric Hoffer - “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 a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.”

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Napoleon Hill - “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.”

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Gabriel Heatter - “Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the sidelines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work, an achievement for eternity.”

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