Achievement Quotes

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

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.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

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.

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

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.