Great Accomplishment Quotes:

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

- Jim Rohn

source: FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Spiritual Disciplines, Inspirational Goal Setting

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Success, Smart, Journey To Success, Starting All Over

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

- Mark Twain

topic: Credit, Care, Giving Credit, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

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

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

source: Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiration And Motivation

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Inspirational Achievement, Inspiring Presidential

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

- Althea Gibson

topic: Motivational, History, Accomplishment, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

source: "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 49, 1799.

topic: Inspirational, God, Animal, Great Accomplishment

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

- Florence Scovel Shinn

source: Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.15, Hampton Roads Publishing

topic: Success, Courage, Work, Sense Of Accomplishment, Great Accomplishment

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Determination, Inspirational Achievement, Student Achievement

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

- Charles Kettering

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Teacher, Motivational Achievement, Aim High

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Jobs, Perfection, Accomplishment, Petulance, Idiosyncrasies

Never mistake activity for achievement.

- John Wooden

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Achievement, Basketball Coaching

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

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Success, Failure, Sense Of Accomplishment, Rising Again

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Beauty, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

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

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Accomplishment, Next, Starting, Sense Of Accomplishment, End Of The Road

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

- Sugar Ray Leonard

topic: Sports, Winning, Careers, Gold Medals, Great Accomplishment

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

- Thomas J. Watson

topic: Motivational, Success, Business, Motivational Management, Watson

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

- Mary Lou Retton

topic: Heart, Accomplishment, Stories, Great Accomplishment

Every great accomplishment starts with a first step. No matter how big your goals are. No matter how great your plans are. No matter how immense your dreams are. It all begins with a single step. Take that step today!

- Clifton Anderson

topic: Dream, Accomplishment, Goal, Great Accomplishment, Single Step

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Love, Karma, Buddhist, Chance And Risk, Great Achievement

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Accomplishment, Sense Of Accomplishment, Mission Accomplished

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Starting All Over, Starting All Over Again

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.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Accomplishing Great Things, Achieve Greatness

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Success, Work, Self Esteem, Great Accomplishment

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Failure In Life, Inspirational Success Failure

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

- Andie MacDowell

source: "Andie MacDowell: Taking Risks, Staying Curious, Agreeing To Disagree". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2011.

topic: Children, Accomplishment, Doubt, Sense Of Accomplishment, Icing

There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.

- Matthew Henson

topic: Men, Climbing, Self, Groveling, Rugged

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

- Nicholas Murray Butler

topic: Opportunity, Accomplishment, Today, Great Accomplishment, Youth Of Today

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

- Benjamin Carson

source: "World-Renowned Pediatric Neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson Attributes His Success to Confidence Gained Through Reading and Education". www.prnewswire.com. October 19, 2011.

topic: Reading, People, Accomplishment, Great Accomplishment

I know Malcolm [Subban] and myself, we're a little bit older now, but we don't know everything. To get to where we have so far has been a great accomplishment but we're not even close to being satisfied. To be able to keep on getting better, progressing, and having success, you need help. What better place to get it than from your parents?

- P. K. Subban

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: Great Accomplishment

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

- John Lydon

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Accomplishment, Achievement, Disease, Great Accomplishment

Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.

- Gabe Paul

topic: Baseball, Jobs, Games, Flukes, Great Accomplishment

When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.

- Stefan Zweig

topic: Hero, Years, Accomplishment, Great Accomplishment

Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Teacher, People, Accomplishment, Great Accomplishment

I believe that the world has become more democratic and open. Women have become more outspoken, more active and competitive. They have achieved great accomplishments in many fields that were previously dominated by men.

- Dalia Grybauskaite

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Believe, Men, World, Great Accomplishment

I never thought that Bill Clinton should be the president. When he was running to be the president of the United States, he said on over a hundred occasions, he said the following: He said, 'One of the great accomplishments while I was the governor of Arkansas, was to take my state in education from 50th to 49th.' And I thought, ' you know, Bill, you should keep that a secret.

- Lewis Black

topic: Running, Accomplishment, Secret, Governors, Great Accomplishment

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

- Atul Gawande

topic: Accomplishment, Expectations, People, Difficult Challenges, Great Accomplishment

Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.

- Anne Rice

topic: Strong, Believe, Moving, Strong Love, Believe In Love

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

- Gary Hamel

topic: Attitude, Accomplishment, Aspiration, Great Accomplishment

Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

topic: Accomplishment, Perfection, Doe, Great Accomplishment

So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

- James Cameron

topic: Ocean, Sea, Two, Yin And Yang, Deep Ocean

Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

- Pau Gasol

topic: Accomplishment, Three, Playoffs, Consecutive, Great Accomplishment

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

- Benjamin Graham

source: Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.15, Harper Collins

topic: Wall, Accomplishment, Investing, Great Accomplishment

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

- Curtis Joseph

topic: Winning, Thinking, Accomplishment, Goalies, Great Accomplishment

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Motivational, Accomplishment, Trying, Great Accomplishment

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Years, Accomplishment, Effort, Great Accomplishment

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

- Martial

topic: Accomplishment, Age, Praying, Great Accomplishment

You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Suicide, Accomplishment, Weakness, Great Accomplishment