Achievement Quotes, Sayings about achieving something

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford

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It’s not what you achieve in life that matters; it’s what you overcome.

Submitted by Genalin Sarcepuedes.
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There are no shortcuts to life’s greatest achievements.
- Anonymous

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

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There’s no substitute for guts.
- Paul Bear Bryant

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

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

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
- Mal Pancoast

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No matter what accomplishment you make, somebody helps you.
- Althea Gibson

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Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- Anonymous

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
- Charles F. Kettering

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

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It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
- John Wooden

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

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A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
- John Foster Dulles

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Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
- Henry Drummond

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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.
- Napoleon Hill

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ronald. E. Osborn

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
- Kuralt

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

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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration… and expectation.
- Jack Nicklaus

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No matter who you are it’s the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.
- Ronaldo

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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
- Ed Parker

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Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
- Nido Qubein

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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, And nothing else.
- Plato

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

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Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
- Conrad Hilton

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

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Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.
- Wayne Dyer

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Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.
- Leo J. Muir

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A happy medium can only be achieved by sacrifice.

Submitted by Shawn J. Kemp.