Inspirational Achievement Quotes & Sayings

Increase your vision of achievement simply by raising your goals ... — Stephen Richards

I don't believe in failure. Whenever you take action and do something, irrespective of the outcome, you have succeeded by simply doing and trying. The universe rewards action. So believe in yourself and do whatever it is you want to do. — Miya Yamanouchi

A key ingredient to achieving your goals is to make sure your goals are totally congruent with who you are as a person. Your head and hearts desire must match. It's such an important step in goal achievement and if we miss it, we can end up travelling a long way down the wrong path! — Rachael Bermingham

Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it. — Steve Maraboli

Don't quit. A wind from nowhere could turn it. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Josie glanced back to the TV. Again the players seemed to be celebrating some minor achievement. It offended the eye at first, then Josie grew to understand it. That's what's missing in my life, she thought. The celebration of every single moment, like those fucking idiots on TV. — Dave Eggers

It's our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives. — Derric Yuh Ndim

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations. — Richie Norton

Every time someone tells me I can't do something the more I want to do it, not to prove them wrong but because I always knew I could do it. — Justin Bienvenue

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Hard work is the formula for success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe in the possibility of positive change at every age and every stage of life. Your whole life is ahead of you. — Eleanor Brownn

Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest. — Todd Stocker

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world. — Michael R. French

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed. — Chriscinthia Blount

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement. — Andre Agassi

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream. — Peter McWilliams

Scars can mark you for greatness. — Amy Neftzger

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. — Florence Nightingale

When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves. — George Alexiou

Let your passion fuel your perseverance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest achievement is self discovery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive. — Sherene McHenry

I think the biggest achievement of my life is that I followed my heart when I knew what it wanted, and had faith in destiny when I didn't know what it held. — Mansi Laus Deo

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. — Napoleon Hill

Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible — Luthfy Es-Haq

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. — Alan Shepard

Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward. — T.D. Jakes

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. — Napoleon Hill

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. — William Faulkner

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day. — George Alexiou

Confidence comes from within. You teach people how to perceive you, by your own example of how you perceive yourself. If you believe in yourself that confidence shines through and others will believe in you too. — Lindsey Rietzsch

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve. — Norman Vincent Peale

Making money may give a sense of Achievement. But making a difference will give a sense of Fulfillment. -RVM — R.v.m.

Tomorrow is yesterday's excuse for today; now has no excuses. — George Alexiou

Success is a steadily progress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted! — Ayn Rand

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come. — Anonymous

You must rise up anytime you fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. — Zane Grey

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others. — Mario Stinger

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing' ... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A recipe for success. Think, do. Repeat as needed. — Rob Liano

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm. — Malcolm Forbes

Personal force, determined spirit and self confidence are your greatest self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every society needs heroes. And every society has them. The reason we don't often see them is because we don't bother to look.
There are two kinds of heroes. Heroes who shine in the face of great adversity, who perform an amazing feat in a difficult situation. And heroes who live among us, who do their work unceremoniously, unnoticed by many of us, but who make a difference in the lives of others.
Heroes are selfless people who perform extraordinary acts. The mark of heroes is not necessarily the result of their action, but what they are willing to do for others and for their chosen cause. Even if they fail, their determination lives on for others to follow. The glory lies not in the achievement, but in the sacrifice. — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

The Swimmer's Advantage:
1)The goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get them there.
2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head the above water.
3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead.
4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Ideal is the one, who knows the self. — Abhijit Naskar

Life is achievement ... Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it. — Ayn Rand

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. — Napoleon Hill

I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Greatness is not a dream but an achievement . — Osunsakin Adewale

Every achievement starts from a dream. So let's dream! — Leyla Atke

Adversity is not a bad thing~It's a God thing! — Prophetess Dina Rolle

Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it. — Tim Fargo

Did is a word of achievement,
Won't is a word of retreat,
Might is a word of bereavement,
Can't is a word of defeat,
Ought is a word of duty,
Try is a word each hour,
Will is a word of beauty,
Can is a word of power. — Ann Landers

Let today be the day that you become committed in being, in doing, in getting, achieving, in experiencing. Let today be the day that you are committed to being the change you wish to see and living the life you wish to live. — Steve Maraboli

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal. — Criss Jami

You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe. — Muhammad Ali

Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge — Derric Yuh Ndim

Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement. — Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comes
the necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older. — Derric Yuh Ndim

Dare to try, knowing that you will make mistakes. You will fall short again and again, because there is no effort without error. In the end, you will either know the triumph of high achievement, or if you fail, you will fail while daring greatly. — Tessa Afshar

Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams. — Miya Yamanouchi

Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you to become a better person and a greater leader. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Only through the empowerment of society to be the very best it can be in a moral way, might we acheive peace through achievement. — Carl T. Johnson

Achievement comes from within. If you don't feel it, it won't make any difference what anyone else thinks. — Michelle Somers

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care. — Criss Jami

Perfecting is a journey ... There is no destination called perfection. — Ashok Kallarakkal

Attaining achievement is not simple. It is not attain by chance, you have to work with it. There ought to be diligence and own path on the best way to accomplish achievement. It takes much time before having the tree grown foods of your work. As you come the way, you will know the things on the best way to be fruitful. Achievement needs time, exertion and tolerance. — Auliq Ice

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. — Ronald Reagan

Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement. — Richie Norton

You can do the required-work by grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration ... Existential frustration is neither pathological or pathogenic. — Viktor E. Frankl

Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow. — Lindsey Rietzsch

Make it a point to get to the real point, though at some point in time you may not get the point; just keep your focus on the main point and you shall definitely score a point in the end! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Material poverty doesn't cause
murder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does. — Derric Yuh Ndim

The achievement of anything that you desire must be considered success, whether it is a trophy or money or relationships or things. But if you will let your standard of success be your achievement of joy - everything else will fall easily into place. For in the finding of joy, you are finding vibrational alignment with the resources of the Universe. — Abraham Hicks

The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there. — Auliq Ice

There are no keys to success - only tools. — Criss Jami

You must dare to dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal. — Kitt Weagant

Forget your past,
Use your pain;
Accept that pain,
And Achieve the gain. — Nitesh Nishad

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination. — William Arthur Ward

A sad fact in life is that you cannot have winners without losers, no matter what you do, it's up to you to make out which one you are. — Auliq Ice

Remember: it is not about what happens to you, but what you choose to DO WITH what happens to you that truly defines who you are. — Alexandra Silber

All what you have to do is to accept, to be bold and open to the world and the world will open it's gates for you. — Auliq Ice

When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail. — Udai Yadla

You are not what you have done, but what you have overcome. All the hardships, the mistakes, the rejections, the pain and all the times you questioned why have given birth to the wisdom and strength that will help you shine your light on the world, even in the darkest of hour. Failures and struggles keep you humble. Success and achievement keep you glowing, but only faith and determination keep you going. Stay focused and celebrate your efforts too, not just the outcomes. — John Geiger

Our dreams and imagination set the limits of our achievement. — Debasish Mridha

Everybody starts small. We all begin life as a single cell. Every business starts as one person with an idea. How fast you go, how far you get, is in your hands. The bigger your vision, the bigger your achievement will be. Will you stumble on the way? Perhaps, but we cannot let fear keep us small. We have to be brave to be big. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

One who has just learnt a foreign language, constantly resorts, while talking, to words belonging to that language in order to make a show of his or her achievement. But one who knows the language well, seldom uses it when speaking in his or her own mother tongue. Such is the case with those who are well advanced in religion. — Abhijit Naskar

Achievement has no color — Abraham Lincoln

The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better ... and continue to inspire! — T.F. Hodge

The fulfilment of your dream could cause a severe shock to many people and they will take ages to recover from it. But some of them will be permanently damaged by it and they will choose to hate you for your achievement. — Euginia Herlihy

Desire is the key to your achievement and to your destiny. — Euginia Herlihy

There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment. — Lailah Gifty Akita