ACHIEVEMENT QUOTES
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T Bennett
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Live the Life of Your Dreams
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
― Albert Einstein
“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paulo Coelho
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry S. Truman
“It shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
― Sarah Dessen
“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
― Ronald Reagan
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
― Horace Mann
“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
― Dorothy Parker
“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 a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
― Margaret Thatcher
“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
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
― B. F. Skinner
“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
― Anatole France
“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
― Ayn Rand
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The roughest roads often lead to the top.”
― Christina Aguilera
“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
― Napoleon Hill
“Achievement has no color”
― Abraham Lincoln
“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
“Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”
― idowu koyenikan
“And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.”
― Mark Haddon
“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”
― Tim Fargo
“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
― Criss Jami
“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
― Stanley Wolpert
“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
― Chinua Achebe
“If my mind can conceive it,
My heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it!”
― Jesse Jackson
“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”
― Joseph Joubert
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“You don’t cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty soon nobody’s going to shove you anymore because they’ll see it’s not worth it.”
― Morgan Rhodes
“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“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
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”
― Joe Abercrombie
“Nothing […] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”
― Samuel Johnson
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
― W. Clement Stone
“Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.”
― Kevin Michel
“The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”
― Colin Powell
“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”
― Marguerite de Navarre
“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
― Joan Collins
“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity’s a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
― Tom Robbins
“But people need lift, too. People don’t get moving, they don’t soar, they don’t achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.”
― Elizabeth Wein
“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”
― Vera Nazarian
“You are the greatest achievement of your own life.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan
“To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.”
― Kevin Michel
“As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.”
― Joseph Conrad
Thanks for reading.