Top 200 Achievement Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

152. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Dean Karnazes

154. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

— Maya Angelou

155. “Fortune favours the brave.”

— Latin proverb

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

157. “I’m going to show you how great I am!”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Thomas A. Edison

159. “Always asked, ‘What’s the key to success?’ The key is, there is no key. Be humble, hungry, and always be the hardest worker in the room.”

— Dwayne Johnson

160. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable”

— Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— C.G. Jung

163. “It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.”

— Denis Waitley

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

— Orison Swett Marden

165. “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

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

— Rick Warren

167. “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

168. “Real artists ship.”

— Steve Jobs

169. “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Tony Robbins

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

— H.P. Lovecraft

172. “Education is inoculation against disruption.”

— Robin S. Sharma

173. “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Lecrae

175. “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.”

— Abdul Kalam

176. “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

177. “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

178. “When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.”

— Walt Disney

179. “Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”

— Napoleon Hill

180. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

— Will Smith

181. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

182. “Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.”

— John Wooden

183. “Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.”

— Napoleon Hill

184. “Progress equals happiness.”

— Tony Robbins

185. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

— Anonymous

186. “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”

— Jim Watkins

187. “It always seems impossible until it's done.”

— Nelson Mandela

188. “Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.”

— Charlie Munger

189. “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

— John Wooden

190. “If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”

— Thomas Jefferson

191. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius

192. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Jim Rohn

193. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”

— Jim Rohn

194. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Ryan Blair

195. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

— Zig Ziglar

196. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

— Walter Bagehot

197. “There are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”

— Thomas A. Edison

198. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

199. “Discipline is consistency of action.”

— James C. Collins

200. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

— Oprah Winfrey