Achievement is a universal aspiration, driving us to strive for greatness and overcome obstacles in our personal and professional lives. Often, a few words of wisdom can provide the spark needed to ignite our motivation and guide us toward success. In this post, we present a curated collection of 57 inspiring achievement quotes that encapsulate the essence of determination and perseverance. Whether you’re seeking motivation for a current challenge or simply wish to reflect on the power of achievement, these quotes are sure to resonate and inspire you on your journey.
1. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy
2. “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” - Horace Mann
3. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” - Paulo Coelho
4. “If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.” - Napoleon Hill
5. “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.” - Ronald Reagan
6. “If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!” - Jesse Jackson
7. “People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.” - Marguerite de Navarre
8. “There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.” - R.A. Salvatore
9. “Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.” - Paulo Coelho
10. “Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.” - John Gardiner
11. “What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation in the world: ‘Come, and everything will be given to you.’ She said: ‘Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.” - Nicolas Sarkozy
12. “Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.” - Vera Nazarian
13. “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.” - William Faulkner
14. “All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.” - Glenn Seaborg
15. “The human worker will go the way of the horse.” - Wassily Leontief
16. “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.” - Joan Collins
17. “Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.” - Malcolm Gladwell
18. “Your motivations--get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office--aren't impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on. An individual's goals figure prominently in the theories of personality first developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. According to his successor David McClelland, what Friedrich Nietzsche called "the will to power," which he considered the major driving force behind human behavior, is one of the three basic motivations, along with achievement and affiliation, that differentiate us as individuals.A simple experiment show show these broad emotional motivations can affect what you pay attention to or ignore on very basic levels. When they examine images of faces that express different kinds of emotion, power-oriented subjects are drawn to nonconfrontational visages, such as "surprise faces," rather than to those that suggest dominance, as "anger faces" do. In contrast, people spurred by affiliation gravitate toward friendly or joyful faces.” - Winifred Gallagher
19. “Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.” - Albert Camus
20. “Achievement seems to be connectedwith action. Successful men andwomen keep moving. They makemistakes, but they don't quit.” - Conrad Hilton
21. “If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.” - Bill Bryson
22. “When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” - Napoleon Hill
23. “The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
24. “I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.” - Philip Larkin
25. “Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.” - Criss Jami
26. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” - Anatole France
27. “Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones” - Pamela Glass Kelly
28. “Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.” - Lois McMaster Bujold
29. “The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.” - Sydney J. Harris
30. “With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.” - Tahir Shah
31. “If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.” - Criss Jami
32. “We feel happy when we accomplish something great, and our hearts filled with satisfaction about what we achieved” - Abdulkareem Bkar
33. “PATH TO SUCCESS: DREAM. PLAN. DO. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. ACHIEVE! IT'S A MESSY JOURNEY.” - Tom Giaquinto
34. “The greatest investment one can ever make is the investment into humanity, for an achievement based on positive influence into people's life can stand the test of time, survive through the mortality of men and resound endlessly through posterity” - Uzoma Ezeson
35. “Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.” - Florence Nightingale
36. “Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.” - Criss Jami
37. “Age is a state of mind.” - Ken Norton
38. “Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.” - Mario Stinger
39. “The sated day is never firstThe best day is a day of thirstYes, there is goal and meaning in our path -but it is the way that is the labour's worth.” - Karin Boye
40. “As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.” - Joseph Conrad
41. “استهلكنا وقتا طويلا في الوصول لأفكار قيمة .. ثم وضعناها في الأوراق !! لا في الحياة !ا” - أحمد عمارة
42. “What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.” - Mike Schmoker
43. “Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been” - Criss Jami
44. “A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.” - Wayne W. Dyer
45. “Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive.” - Sherene McHenry
46. “Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible” - Luthfy Es-Haq
47. “Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.” - Napoleon Hill
48. “When the fear of failure triumphs over the repugnance of mediocrity, we must resign ourselves to the status quo. Every change, every opportunity to do something different will send us running to hide beneath a cover of excuses and complacency. Those few courageous souls who delve into the lands where they risk failure, will be soundly ridiculed. They will be condemned not because they dream, but rather for making their dreams real and destroying the illusion that all that can be thought has been thought, all that can be done has been done, and all that can be felt has been felt. In their enthusiastic insolence, they see life filled with infinite possibilities and they know they must chart their own course, even if they must go alone.” - D.A. Blankinship
49. “I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an issue of or even mentioning.Marriage is giving - and more important, it's forgiving.And it is almost always the wife who must do these things.Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave.Often that is the hardest part.Oh, I have leveled all right.If they don't get my message, Buster,It's because they don't want to get it.Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocalsBecause nobody wants to red the small print in dreams.” - Ann Landers
50. “For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.” - Alan Alda
51. “One of my greatest failures: I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.One of my greatest achievements:I have learnt to ignore my futureless past.” - Munia Khan
52. “Perhaps you have been wondering about how you will win the tournaments of life. This is an important moment of your life. Just know where your goals are. Dress in the jersey of action and enter the game of vision! Work with your talents, skills, and tactics and with determination! Don’t commit any foul; don’t put yourself on an offside position. Be at the right place at the right time. Attack your failures and defend your goals; look up and watch the time because the whistle may blow at any time. Don’t waste the chances you get! Target the goals and with winning in focus, you will be there!” - Israelmore Ayivor
53. “God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony.” - Shannon L. Alder
54. “When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.” - George Alexiou
55. “Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.” - George Alexiou
56. “Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.” - Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
57. “I like "multi-"...multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement.” - Rossana Condoleo
