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50 Famous Quotes About Accomplishments

List Of 50 Famous Quotes About Accomplishments:

#1 Lauren Graham

“In my experience, there’s no secret to accomplishing almost any goal worth pursuing.”

#2 Steve Maraboli

“It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal.”

#3 Booker T. Washington

“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”

#4 Winston S. ChurchillWinston Churchill

“It’s no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

#5 Mikhail S. Gorbachev

“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.”

#6 Sir Thomas More

“What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.”

#7 Stuart Hill

“If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.”

#8 Idowu Koyenikan

“There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.”

#9 Martina Boone

“It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.”

#10 Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci quotes on life and life

”There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, it’s for some other.”

#11 Anatole France

“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”

#12 Jeanne Moreau

”Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.”

#13 Charles Bukowski

”To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”

#14 Orson Welles

”I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”

#15 Richard Bach

“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”

#16 Elbert Hubbard

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

#17 Georgia O’Keeffe

”You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.”

#18 William Blake

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

#19 Bruce Rauner

”I want to do something that I’m proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.”

#20 Brian Tracy

”Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.”

#21 Criss Jami

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”

#22 Maxwell Maltz

”Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.”

#23 Arnold J. Toynbee

”The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”

#24 Jimmy Johnson

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

#25 John F. Kennedy

”Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”

#26 Norman Vincent Peale

”There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”

#27 Harvey Mackay

”A great accomplishment shouldn’t be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.”

#28 Lao TzuLao Tzu famous quote

“Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”

#29 Zig Ziglar

”You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”

#30 Margaret Thatcher

“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.”

#31 Sebastian Thrun

”Education should learn from the positive side of gaming – reward, accomplishment, and fun.”

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#32 Thomas Carlyle

”Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.”

#33 Aly Raisman

”You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!”

#34 Vince Lombardi

”The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”

#35 Ronald Reagan

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”

#36 Jim Rohn

”Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

#37 Jonas Salk

“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”

#38 Harry Truman

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

#39 Paulo Coelho

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

#40 Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein quotes on life

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

#41 Oprah Winfrey

”If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.”

#42 Edward Everett Hale

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

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#43 Tasha Hoggatt

“When you set your mind to achieve something, you must allow yourself the opportunity to get it done.”

#44 Colin Powell

“The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”

#45 Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson famous quote

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

#46 Chris Grosse

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”

#47 Joan Collins

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”

#48 John Wooden

“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”

#49 Orrin Woodward

“Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.”

#50 Henry David Thoreau

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

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References

https://www.biography.com/writer/henry-david-thoreau
https://www.thoreausociety.org/life-legacy