Achievement Quotes
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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
"The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it."
"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."
"Don't mistake activity with achievement."
"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."
"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy."
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement."
"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
"The roughest roads often lead to the top."
"Patience is so valuable I'm willing to wait forever to achieve it. And while I wait, I may as well get busy being short-tempered."
"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
"Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live."
"Achievement has no color"
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
"What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve."
"The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you,it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know,your fears, your 4 am thoughts, your achievements,are things I no longer have an equivalent to.Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now.-Tanzy Sayadi and Jarod Kintz"
"The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop."
"Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today."
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve"
"Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it."
"The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them."
"Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care."
"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."
"Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own."
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
"The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!"
"Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives."
"Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement."
"Do not empower your negative thoughts by giving them “legs” so they can run around your mind, creating worries,frustrations, and anxiety in your life."
"Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result."
"Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace…."
"Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time."
"To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'."
"Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail."
"In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with."
"Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you."
"Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement."
"When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun."
"The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come."
"The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved."
"The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations."
"To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in."
"Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process."
"If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."
"If you drop your beliefs, you drop your success. God's mighty people begin to fall even as achievers when they begin to drop the beliefs they pursue at first."
"True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement."
"Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones"
"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."
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