Achievement Proverbs
Sayings about Achievement
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspirations and expectations. ~ Saying
Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself have not achieved can hardly be called your own. ~ Greek Proverb
Not much is achieved where everyone gives the orders. ~ Portuguese Proverb
There are no shortcuts to life’s greatest achievements. ~ Saying
Greatness is not achieved with violence. ~ African Proverb
God's goal will be achieved when everyone is content with himself. ~ Breton Proverb
The body achieves what the mind believes. ~ Saying
Somebody is always doing what somebody else said couldn't be done. ~ Saying
Quotations about Achievement
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ~ Jack Kinder
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. ~ Eric Hoffer
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called "Ego". ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. ~ Alfred Adler
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the mad? to achievement. One fails? forward toward success. ~ Charles F. Kettering
Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today. ~ Wilfred A. Peterson
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. ~ Adam Ant
That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved. ~ Lao-Tzu
All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. ~ Brian Tracy
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
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it. ~ Vince Lombardi
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ~ William Arthur Ward
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lets be frank about it; most of our people have never had it so good. ~ Harold Macmillan
We will either find a way, or make one. ~ Hannibal
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. ~ Richard Wagner
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~ Doug Larson
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ~ Benjamin Jowett
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ~ James Lane Allen
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. ~ Carl Jung
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~ Eddie Robinson
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. ~ Aristotle
Oh, but a man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? ~ Andrea del Sarto
What you declare, you will achieve. When you think you can’t revisit a previous triumph. ~ Jack Canfield
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ~ Morarji Desai
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. ~ Robert Collier
Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. Put these together and you have achievement. ~ Leo J. Muir
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ~ Samuel Johnson
It’s no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. ~ Winston Churchill
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. ~ Dwight Whitney Morrow
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead a year. ~ Tom Lehrer
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. ~ Harold Taylor
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. ~ Harvey Mackay
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ~ Otto Rank
The only way around is through. ~ Robert Frost
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. ~ Donald Rumsfeld
The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive. ~ George Allen
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. ~ George Fabricius
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