Top 40 Achievement Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”

— Farrah Gray

2. “Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Sacrifice Quotes

3. “Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.”

— Brian Tracy

4. “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.”

— Bertrand Russell

5. “The only failure is not trying.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying

6. “A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Firsts Quotes

7. “There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.”

— James Allen

Also featured in: Sacrifice Quotes

8. “Education is the great engine to personal development.”

— Nelson Mandela

9. “Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

10. “If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.”

— Abdul Kalam

11. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.”

— Michelle Obama

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes

12. “Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.”

— Jim Rohn

13. “Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?”

— Jim Rohn

14. “The mind is incredible. Once you’ve gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

15. “The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Teamwork Quotes

16. “We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Quotes About Night

17. “Small daily – seemingly insignificant – improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Innovation Quotes

18. “Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

19. “Life is short. Be of use.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Life Is Short Quotes

20. “The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.”

— Walt Disney

21. “There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

22. “The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.”

— Denis Waitley

23. “The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”

— Denis Waitley

24. “You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

25. “It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

26. “We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.”

— Dean Karnazes

27. “Large portions of life’s disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.”

— Thomas A. Edison

28. “The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.”

— Denis Waitley

29. “The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.”

— Napoleon Hill

30. “In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”

— James Allen

Also featured in: Effort Quotes

31. “Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Effort Quotes

32. “A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Also featured in: Struggle Quotes

33. “The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Quotes About Skills

34. “For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

35. “Living for God’s glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives.”

— Rick Warren

36. “The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

37. “We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.”

— Lecrae

Also featured in: Heaven Quotes

38. “Education is inoculation against disruption.”

— Robin S. Sharma

39. “The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.”

— Salman Rushdie

Also featured in: Artist Quotes

40. “Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.”

— Stephen Hawking