Achievement Quotes

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill 

You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart 

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

- Grenville Kleiser 

Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

- Zig Ziglar 

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan 

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

- Betty Ford 

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

- Benjamin Franklin 

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

- Ken Venturi 

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

- Mia Hamm 

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

- Mia Hamm 

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

- Vincent van Gogh 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh 

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller 

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

- Mabel Newcomber 

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

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, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes 

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden 

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

- Francis Bacon 

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

- Elizabeth Dole 

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 

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

- Bernadette Devlin 

To fly, we have to have resistance.

- Maya Lin