Achievement Quotes

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.
Roman Abramovich - Passions - Achievement

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash - Belief - Motivational - Ambition

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.
Jack Canfield - Learning - Goals - Belief - Growth - Achievement - Compassion - Persistence - Patience - Love

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.
Andrew Carnegie - Money - Success - Commitment

If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.
Jimmy Carter - Challenges - Achievement - Inspirational

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Walter Chrysler - Work - Achievement - Jobs - Satisfaction

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas Edison - Work - Commitment

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
Larry Flynt - Questions - Self Control - Success

Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi - Winning - Achievement - Action

If they don’t fail outright, most businesses fail to fully achieve their potential. That’s because the person who owns the business doesn’t truly know how to build a company that works without him or her.. which is the key.
Michael Gerber - Business - Achievement - Failure

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
Stephen Hawking - Human Race - Possible - Communication - Ideas - Achievement - Failures - Hope - Technology - Talk

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
Martin Luther King Jr - Power - Social - Understanding - Strong - Change - Politics - Economy - Achievement

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Lauren - Dreams - Leadership - Vision - Achievement - Inspirational - Power - Energy - Motivational - Conviction

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi - Determination - Leadership - Achievement - Goals - Hard Work

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi - Optimistic - Achievement - Thinking

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing. the result.
Vince Lombardi - Life - Achievement - Jobs

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
George Lucas - Goals - Challenges

A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.
Ian Macfarlane - Banks - Government - Achieve

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
Og Mandino - Success - Victory - Winning - Habits - Goals - Achievement - Bored - Dreams

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Nader - Leadership - Inspirational - Achievement

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Action - Strength - Achievement - Life - Ambition - Meaning

You ask me if we are going to hold the sword all our lives. If we have to do it we will do it, but I hope that it won’t be necessary. There are those among the Palestinians who understand that they will not be able to achieve anything by force. Those that are ready to speak peace, I am ready to talk and negotiate with, as a matter of fact I am in contact with them now.
Ariel Sharon - War - Peace - Achievement

The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.
Eckhart Tolle - Now - Spiritual - Achievement - Money - Relationships - Knowledge - Assets

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy - Goals - Work - Achievement

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Brian Tracy - Goals - Achievement

I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.
Brian Tracy - Achievement - Learning - Goals - Problems - Solutions - Belief

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
Brian Tracy - Achievement - Leadership - Commitment - Self Control

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.
Brian Tracy - Goals - Leadership - Achievement

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.
Brian Tracy - Achievement - Planning - Success - Goals

You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.
Brian Tracy - Achievement - Planning - Time

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
Brian Tracy - Self Help - Achievement

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.
Stuart Wilde - Achievement - Knowledge - Goals

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.
Zig Ziglar - Action - Power - Focus - Achievement