Accomplishment / Achievement - Quotes

(1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving,

(2) You're willing to take massive action,

(3) You notice what's working or not, and

(4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way. - Tony Robbins

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

All enduring accomplishments are created through dedication, persistence and a sense of commitment. - Sherri Bishop

All great accomplishment require time. - David Joseph Schwartz

All great achievement starts from the ground. - Unknown

All personal accomplishment starts in the mind of the individual. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal, or desire is. If you are not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. - Unknown

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. - James Allen

Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of importance – especially to the benefit of others – has had to endure being misunderstood by those who just couldn’t get it. - Unknown

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. - Marcus Aurelius

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. - W. Clement Stone

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. - Unknown

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations. - Gary Hamel

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. - Napoleon Hill

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. - Charles F. Kettering

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci

It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing. - Rosemarie Rossetti

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. - Unknown

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie  

Never was anything great achieved without danger. - Niccolo Machiavelli

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. - Thomas Carlyle

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. - Thomas Carlyle

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Unknown

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. - Thomas Carlyle

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. - Tony Robbins

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. - M. C. Escher

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. - Maxwell Maltz

Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement. - Leo J. Muir 

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. - Thomas J. Watson

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. - Vincent Lombardi

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources. - Marquis De Vauvenargue

The law of achievement says, ‘you must plough, sow good seeds… and reap the rewards usually much later. - Unknown

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. - Denis Waitley

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

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

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire. - Napoleon Hill

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. - Arnold J. Toynbee

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. - J. Harold Wilkins

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts. - Roopleen

There are four steps to accomplishment: Plan Purposefully. Prepare Prayerfully. Proceed Positively. Pursue Persistently. - Unknown

There is no end to what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit. - Florence Luscomb

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan . . . believe . . . act! - Alfred Montapert

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster. - Stirling Moss

To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die. - Marquis de Vauvenargues

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. - Tom Robbins

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. - Plutarch

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission. - Peter F. Drucker

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. - William E. Holler

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It is pretty straightforward. - Unknown