Top 200 Achievement Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

102. “You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?”

— Sally Hogshead

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Ambition Quotes

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

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Career Development Quotes

104. “You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

105. “Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Powerful Motivational Quotes

106. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

107. “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever is your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

108. “What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

— Gary W. Keller

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Taking Action Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

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

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Mastery Quotes

110. “Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Learning Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

111. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

112. “One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Education Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

113. “The best investment you can make is in yourself.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Wealth Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Mindset Quotes

114. “If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

— David Viscott

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Quotes About Trying

115. “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Business Quotes

116. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes, Business Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

117. “Wanting to win isn’t enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

118. “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

119. “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: Service Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Quotes About Night

120. “If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Excellence Quotes, Ambition Quotes

121. “Make every day your masterpiece. ”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

122. “Failure is an event, not a person.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Quotes About Life, Inspirational Life Quotes

123. “Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Effort Quotes

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

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Tuesday Motivational Quotes, Habit Quotes

125. “Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Greatness Quotes, Monday Motivation Quotes

126. “Start with the end in mind.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Future Quotes

127. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”

— Pelé

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

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

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Keep Going Quotes

129. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Goal Quotes, Business Quotes, Coaching Quotes

130. “Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Life Lessons Quotes

131. “Life is short. Be of use.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Motivational Work Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

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

— Walt Disney

133. “High expectations are the key to everything.”

— Sam Walton

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Winning Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Ambition Quotes

134. “My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Challenges Quotes

135. “If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens.”

— J. J. Watt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Sports Quotes

136. “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

Also featured in: Growth Mindset Quotes, Monday Morning Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes

137. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Preparation Quotes

138. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Intelligent Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

139. “Your habits will determine your future.”

— Jack Canfield

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Growth Quotes, Future Quotes

140. “When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

141. “Monday, I grind. Tuesday, I grind. Wednesday, I grind. Thursday, I grind. Friday, I grind. Saturday, I grind. Sunday, I grind. And, that’s why I’m here today.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

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

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Growth Mindset Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Expectations Quotes, You Are Amazing Quotes

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

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes

144. “You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

145. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

— Elon Musk

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

146. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Effort Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Smart Quotes

147. “Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Struggle Quotes

148. “Dream big, because dreams do happen.”

— Alex Morgan

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Happy Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

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

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Fitness Quotes

150. “In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Motivational Quotes for Work, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes