Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Achieving

Achieving

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.--Agatha Christie (They Came to Bagdad)
All great achievements require time.--David Joseph Schwartz
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.--Hermann Hesse (Demian)
All that a man achieves and all that he falls to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.--James Allen
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.--Orison Swett Marden
Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.--Betty Bender
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.--Paul Tillich (Time)
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.--William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.--James B. Conant
The easiest way to set goals is to answer the following questions: What is it I want to achieve? When do I want to achieve it? Where am I today and what action do I need to take to achieve my goal?--Catherine Pulsifer ("Words of Wisdom")
Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.--George Fabricius
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.--W.J. Bryant
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.--Mary Baker Eddy
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.--John Wooden
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.--John Wooden
Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.--Madeleine Albright
The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.--Leonard Sweet (Summoned to Lead)
Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do it.--Charles Fillmore
Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.--William A. Ward
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.--Warren Bennis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.--Vincent Van Gogh
Greatness ... consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks.--Russell Conwell (Acres of Diamonds)
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.--Antoine Saint-Exupery (Flight to Arras)
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.--Ben Stein
I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making--it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.--Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)
If [women] understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.--Emily Taft Douglas
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.--Brian Tracy
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.--Mao Tse-tung
It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.--F. M. Young
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.--Charles Kettering
Just do a thing and don’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success.--Sarah Grand
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.--Anne Sullivan
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.--Kate Seredy
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.--Confucius
A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.--Robert J. McKain
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.--Michelangelo
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.--Thomas Carlyle
The mathematics of high achievement--
Begin with a dream.
DIVIDE the problems and conquer them one by one.
MULTIPLY the exciting possibilities in your mind.
SUBTRACT all the negative thoughts to get started.
ADD enthusiasm and determination.
And the RESULT will be the attainment of your goal.--Anonymous
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, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.--Helen Hays
No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.--Althea Gibson
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.--Laura Ingalls Wilder
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Greatness" Letters and Social Aims)
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.--Bill Hybels (Christians in the Workplace)
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.--Bruce Barton
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.--Eric Butterworth
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.--E. Joseph Cossman
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.--Michael Jordon
Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.--M.C. Escher
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.--Robert F. Kennedy
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.--Helen Keller
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.--Stewart B. Johnson
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.--Harold Taylor
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.--Pliny the Younger (Letters)
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.--Doug Larson
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.--Robert Schuller
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life)
There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.--Buck Rodgers
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.--Franz Kafka (in Conversations with Kafka by Janouch)
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.--Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.--Norman Vincent Peale
Thought, not money, is the real business capital, and if you know absolutely that what you are doing is right, then you are bound to accomplishment it in due season.--Harvey Firestone
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.--Vauvenargues, marquis de Luc de Clapiers (Reflections and Maxims)
To achieve you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.--Ayn Rand
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercies over himself.--Elie Wiesel
We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.--James R. Ball
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.--Mother Teresa
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness - either enforced or voluntary. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.--Agatha Christie
We, the unwilling,
led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible
for the ungrateful.
We have done so much,
for so long,
with so little,
we are now qualified
to do anything
with nothing.
--Anonymous
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.--Eva Le Gallienne
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.--Henry David Thoreau
What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.--Zig Zigler
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.--Leo Burnett
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.--Helen Keller
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.--Stella, Lady Reading