86 Quotes About Achievement

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

What you can't go through, God will help you fly over.

They always win who side with God.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Fear God and work hard.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The man who gets ahead is the man who works while others sleep.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.

Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

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

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Prospect is often better than possession.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Put the very best construction on the actions of others.

The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day, and in the morning what thou hast to do; dress and undress thy soul; mark the decay or growth of it. If with thy watch, that too be down, then wind up both. Since thou shalt be most surely judged, make thine accounts agree.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

Little opportunities should be improved.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.