Achievement Quotes

God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author

To spend life for something which outlasts it.
William James

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs 1955-, American Businessman, Founder of Apple Computers

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

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett 1817-1893, British Scholar

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

It's not the having, it's the getting.
Elizabeth Taylor 1932-, British-born American Actress

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher 1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90)

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman

Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.
Unknown

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.
Unknown

The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
Unknown

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
Barbara Walters 1931-, American TV Personality

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Earl Warren 1891-1974, American Politician, Judge

 

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