Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Achievements

The thorough man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment to ends.
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist

Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today.
Wilferd Arlan Peterson (1900–95) American Author

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet

Who works achieves and who sows reaps.
Arabic Proverb

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.
Owen D. Young (1874–1962) American Businessperson, Lawyer, Diplomat

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian Psychiatrist

How my achievements mock me.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

To be thrown upon one’s own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration that moves men and women to bestir themselves to rise to higher and higher achievement. Individual success is to be won in most instances by studying and diagnosing the kind of rewards human hearts seek today and are likely to seek tomorrow.
B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch (c.46–c.120 CE) Greek Biographer, Philosopher

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chinese Statesman

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the worthy of being known.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Mabel Newcomer (1891–1983) American Economist

The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American Theologian, Philosopher

If you think you’re tops, you won’t do much climbing.
Arnold Glasow (1905–98) American Businessman

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves – to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.
Stewart B. Johnson

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

There’s a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he’s greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there’s a welcoming hand-he’s the man who delivers the goods.
Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis (1824–92) American Essayist, Public Speaker, Editor, Author

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

We all know that the nation can’t divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that’s how we get ahead.
William Feather (1889–1981) American Publisher, Author

You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
Abba Eban (1915–2002) Israeli Diplomat, Politician

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going day in and out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) British Novelist, Playwright, Critic

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain have I tried to step beyond what bound me. Despite my years, I am still trying.
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) Belgian Poet, Playwright, Essayist

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