Achievement Quotes

Make it a rule to seek advice from people who know. There's a lot of incorrect thinking that successful people are inaccessible. The plain truth is that they are not.
Schwartz, David J., Ph.D. The Magic Of Thinking Big Simon & Schuster, 1965, p. 124.

All achievements, all earned riches,
have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill

This quote definitely sums up how achievements are realized. You must have an idea first, and or a dream, and then these ideas must be turned into reality. A lot of people have a lot of dreams but they do not do anything to put them in motion. They stay stuck at the point of dreaming somehow thinking that their dream will magically come true but this kind of thinking will only lead to having the same old things.

Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden

Four steps to achievement:
Plan purposefully.
Prepare prayerfully.
Proceed positively.
Pursue persistently.
William Arthur Ward

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.?
Sigmund Freud

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

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

Our achievements of today
are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.
You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you
and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
Blaise Pascal

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul;
the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill

And, along with achievement goes quotes about the mind for without an active mind, there is nothing accomplished.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Sigmund Freud

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
George Bernard Shaw

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering.
Virginia Woolf

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
Arnold Bennett

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.
Robert Brault

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
Chuck Palahniuk

The mind ain't nothing without the old body tagging along to follow things through.
Sam Shepard

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don’t see until It’s all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.
John Ashbery

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are.
Henry Ford
There is one thing for certain and that is the power of what you want can be what you have. Henry Ford had a dream and put that dream into motion and that motion, along with dedication and perseverance, made the Model T a reality. A dream is useless unless attached to action, and that action must be sustained no matter how many obstacles need to be overcome.

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.
Charles Caleb Colton

Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Yoda

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
Nido Qubein

The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing.
Benjamin Franklin

What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Shirley Lord

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

All great achievements require time.
David J. Schwartz

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe