Achievement Quotes
120 Achievement Quotes
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Life is designed to be a story of achievement in spite of adversity, not in the absence of adversity, for without adversity achievement could not exist.
Jim Rohn
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Zig Ziglar
Don’t mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
Great achievement is born of struggle.
Napoleon Hill
I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.
George Burns
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
Victory is in the quality of competition, not the final score.
Mike Marshall
You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.
Arlene Blum
Laurels don’t make much of a cushion.
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
George Bernard Shaw
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
Truman Capote
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions-the hero and the sidekick.
Laurence Shames
The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.
Daniel J Boorstin
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
Horace J Brown
Success is never final, but failure can be.
Bill Parcells
I couldn’t wait for success…so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
If at first you do succeed-try to hide your astonishment.
Anonymous
If you’re not failing now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe.
Woody Allen
You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It isn’t failing that spells one’s downfall; it’s running away, giving up.
Michel Greco
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn Vos Savant
On this earth, in the final analysis, each of us gets exactly what he deserves. But only the successful recognise this.
Georges Simenon
If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.
M H Alderson
Success is not forever, and failure’s not fatal.
Ken Blanchard
Failure is an event, never a person.
William D Brown
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Edwin Markham
Failure doesn’t hurt you. It’s the fear of failure that’s the killer.
Jack Lemmon
From where you sit, you can probably reach out with comparative ease and touch a life of serenity and peace. You can wait for things to happen and not get too sad when they don’t. That’s fine for some but not for me. Serenity is pleasant, but it lacks the ecstasy of achievement.
Estée Lauder
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
How many ‘coming men’ has one known? Where on earth do they all go to?
Arthur Wing Pinero
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Henry David Thoreau
They are able who think they are able.
Virgil
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
William Van Horne
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