ACHIEVEMENT

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

The journey is the reward.
Chinese Proverbs

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Aristotle

"No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything."
Ronaldo(Ronaldinho) Assis Moreira

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius

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

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Walt Disney

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

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To spend life for something which outlasts it.
William James

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai

''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
Samuel Smiles

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Alphonse De Lamartine

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of
Eric Hoffer

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Eddie Robinson

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. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
David Bailey

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Mark Victor Hansen

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Jean De La Fontaine

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.
Julia Woodruff

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

Be not afraid of flying. Angels live in the clouds and the devil on the earth.
Greg Evans

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

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
Alfred A. Montapert

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,
Simone Weil

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Charles F. Kettering

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Plutarch

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Phaedrus

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
Zig Ziglar

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Henry David Thoreau

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.
C. Hoppe

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. E. Cummings

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.
Anthony Robbins

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Otto Rank

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Lady Stella Reading