Personal Achievement Quotes:

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

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

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 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

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Goal, Personal Achievement, Great Achievement

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

source: As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

topic: Positive, Monday, Motivation, Inspirational Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Achievement, Excellence, Ongoing, Springboards, Personal Achievement

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Best Success, Innovative Ideas

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

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

- Charles Kettering

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

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Birthday, Self, Achievement, Self Actualization, Personal Achievement

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Trying New Things, Personal Achievement

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

- Cassey Ho

topic: Fitness, Want, Way, Personal Achievement

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Secret Life, Creativeness

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

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

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

- Jack Nicklaus

source: Jack Nicklaus (1998). “Jack Nicklaus: My Story”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Positive, Expectations, Achievement, Strive For Success, Lifetime Achievement

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

- Loretta Young

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Achievement, Personal Achievement

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Giving Up, Personal Achievement, Basketball Player

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Positive Thinking, Personal Achievement, Dreams And Reality

I will either find a way or make one.

- Hannibal

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Latin Phrases, Latin Proverb

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Success, Congratulations, Thinking, Odds Against You, Personal Achievement

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

- Katharine Anthony

topic: Thinking, People, Achievement, Personal Achievement, Personal Independence

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

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Tattoo, Inspirational Determination, Latin Phrases

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

- Scott Hamilton

topic: Sports, Country, Golf, Personal Achievement

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.578, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Self, Achievement, Personal Achievement

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Success, Achievement, Stupidity, Personal Achievement

All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Knowing, Achievement, Mind, Personal Achievement

Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful,

- J. Cole

topic: Mom, Dream, Jobs, Successful Artists, Payback

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.781, Penguin

topic: Running, Kindness, Eye, Personal Achievement

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Home, America, People, Personal Achievement, Radio Stations

Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.

- Elliott Erwitt

topic: Photography, People, Goal, Make Someone Laugh, Chaplin