Top 200 Achievement Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?”

— Sally Hogshead

102. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

— Les Brown

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

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

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

— Les Brown

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

— Kobe Bryant

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

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

— Gary W. Keller

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

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

— Will Smith

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

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

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

— Warren Buffett

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

— David Viscott

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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Michael Jordan

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

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Robin S. Sharma

123. “Make every day your masterpiece. ”

— John Wooden

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

— John Wooden

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

— Jim Rohn

126. “Start with the end in mind.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Tony Robbins

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

131. “Life is short. Be of use.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Richard Branson

133. “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

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Sam Walton

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

139. “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

140. “Your habits will determine your future.”

— Jack Canfield

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

— Denis Waitley

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

— Denis Waitley

143. “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

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

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

— Elon Musk

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— John Wooden

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

— Alex Morgan

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

— Warren Buffett

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

— Denis Waitley