Motivational Achievement Quotes:

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Best Success, Inspirational History

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Money, Congratulations, Successful, Steady Progress, Greatest Achievement

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Daily Work, True Believer

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Death, Cold Heart, Leaving A Legacy

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

- John F. Kennedy

source: John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Inspirational Courage, 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

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

- Napoleon Hill

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

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Dream, Inspirational Achievement, Mind Heart

The best revenge is the massive success.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Pursue Your Dreams, Source Of Life, Innovation Inspiration, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational And Innovation

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

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting, Success Is Not Measured

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Succes, Motivational Achievement

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

- W. Clement Stone

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

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

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Giving Credit, Inspirational Achievement

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

topic: Inspirational, Positive, New Year, Really Scary, Trying Something New

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Success Failure, Success Is Not Measured

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Encouragement, Transcending, Starting All Over

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination, Life Determination, Motivational Achievement

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Positive, Daily Work, Social Entrepreneurship

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Self Determination, Steps To Success

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Going To College

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

Well done is better than well said.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports, Job Well Done, About Success

Destiny is no 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

source: William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Manifest Destiny, Future Success

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

- Vincent Van Gogh

source: Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Men, Trials, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational Adversity

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

- William James

topic: Basketball, Dream, Perseverance, Inspirational Achievement, Motivational Achievement

Do your best with what you have where you are.

- Lucy Punch

topic: Where You Are, Social Good, Inspirational Achievement, New Career, Inspirational Charity

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

- George Washington Carver

topic: New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom, Social Good, New Career

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes

topic: Success, Life And Love, Congratulations, Inspirational Achievement, Motivational Achievement

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Failure, Inspirational Coaching, Sports Coach

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

- Conrad Hilton

topic: Life, Motivational, Moving On, Best Success, Perserverance

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, About Success, Mediocre Minds

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

- Saul Alinsky

topic: Creativity, Mean, Tactics, Social Good, Failure In Life

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

- Mark Twain

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

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- W. H. Murray

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Innovation Inspiration

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, About Success, Inspirational Achievement

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

- William James

topic: Running, Perseverance, Inspirational Sports, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

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

- Charles Kettering

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

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Eye, Goal, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself