Achievement Quotations

Alfred Adler

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The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

- Alfred Adler

Unknown Author

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Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

- Unknown Author

Got put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!

- Unknown Author

If you don't climb the mountain, you can't view that plain.

- Unknown Author

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

- Unknown Author

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

- Unknown Author

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce

- Unknown Author

The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep.

- Unknown Author

To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.

- Unknown Author

Sir James Matthew Barrie

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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.

- Sir James Matthew Barrie

Dale Carnegie

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The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

- Dale Carnegie

Confucius

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Do not desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

- Confucius

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Epictetus

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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

- Epictetus

Robert Frost

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The only way around is through.

- Robert Frost

Vincent van Gogh

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh

Helen Hayes

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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 and success.

- Helen Hayes

Orison Swett Marden

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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.

- Orison Swett Marden

Pablo Picasso

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I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

- Pablo Picasso

Plutarch

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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

- Plutarch

Chinese Proverb

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Chinese proverb, The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trails.