140 Achievement Quotes to Motivate You to Achieve Success in Life

Achievements are a result of hard work, determination and constant efforts with positive attitude. Here are the best achievement quotes to inspire you to achieve your goals and dreams.

Achievement Quotes

1. “Achievements of today are the stepping stones for the future ones.” ~ Invajy

2. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy

3. “Achievements have no value, if you leave behind the people to celebrate with.” ~ Invajy

4. “You need to battle with fear of failure to achieve your goals in life.” ~ Invajy

5. “Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” ~ Nicholas M. Butler

6. “Nothing can be achieved in life without taking that first step, So just Start!” ~ Invajy

7. “One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.” ~ Joe Abercrombie

8. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” ~ John Wooden

9. “To reach this stage, where you are; is a great achievement. You do not need certificates from others.” ~ Invajy

10. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn

11. “Good people surrounding you are the real achievements; not the possessions.” ~ Invajy
12. “Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.” ~ Robin S. Sharma
13. “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.” ~ Bertrand Russell
14. “If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.” ~ Abdul Kalam
15. “Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.” ~ Jim Rohn
16. “The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.” ~ John C. Maxwell
17. “Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?” ~ Jim Rohn
18. “Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” ~ Albert Camus
19. “The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.” ~ Denis Waitley
20. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” ~ Brian Tracy
21. “Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” ~ Henry Ford
22. “All great achievements require time.” ~ Maya Angelou
23. “The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.” ~ Colin Powell
24. “In order to achieve anything, we must have an understanding of its opposite.” ~ Rudy Scarfalloto
25. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
26. “Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.” ~ Vera Nazarian
27. “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” ~ Napoleon Hill
28. “The roughest roads often lead to the top.” ~ Christina Aguilera
29. “Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.” ~ Winston Churchill
30. “The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.” ~ Harold Taylor

Achieve Your Goals Quotes

31. “Every end becomes a means of carrying activity further as soon as it is achieved.” ~ John Dewey
32. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” ~ Robert Collier
33. “I could not achieve many things in life which I desired, those failures became the foundation of today’s success.” ~ Invajy
34. “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
35. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” ~ Thomas J. Watson
36. “With the right balance of vacation and work, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that the human spirit cannot achieve.” ~ Sage Wilcox
37. “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” ~ Leonard Bernstein
38. “The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.” ~ Denis Waitley
39. “As I grew older, I thought about the things that I have achieved. To my surprise, I haven’t accomplished a lot.” ~ Michael Lee
40. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~ Helen Keller
41. “Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it’s the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off.” ~ Roger Deakins
42. “Achievement is not about ‘doing something.’ Rather, it’s about ‘being someone.” ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
43. “Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
44. “Mistakes are the foundation of achievement.” ~ Steven Magee
45. “I profoundly believe that there is always more than one ‘right way’ to achieve great results.” ~ Robyn Pearce
46. “It is little keys that open up big doors – On small steps leading to great achievements” ~ Lamine Pearlheart
47. “Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don’t let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
48. “Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.” ~ Anonymous
49. “Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.” ~ Paulo Coelho
50. “If you keep working at it, if you keep moving forward, you will achieve what you want.” ~ Leigh Shulman
51. “Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don’t feel they’re good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven’t yet put the work in to develop them.” ~ Ken Robinson
52. “To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.”~ Les Brown
53. “The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible.” ~ Mary Maker Eddy
54. “If you go out without a plan, you will return home without any achievement.” ~ Awolumate Samuel
55. “Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.” ~ Kevin Michel
56. “If talent is the floor and character the ceiling, then work-ethic is the altitude of personal achievement.” ~ Orrin Woodward
57. “When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill
58. “As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.” ~ Joseph Conrad
59. “Achievement has no color.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
60. “Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Achievement Quotes for Students

61. “Every single time that something goes well for you, even the tiniest little achievement, be pleased with yourself.” ~ Rebecca Turner
62. “Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.” ~ Stephen Covey
63. “Always ask, “Why?” The more reasons you have to pursue a goal, the better you’ll likely do in terms of achieving it.” ~ Michael S. Dobson
64. “Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it.” ~ Steve Maraboli
65. “Your enthusiasm will inspire others to move forward with actions that bring rewarding achievements.” ~ Steve Brunkhorst
66. “Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort. The practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.” ~ Charles M. Schwab
67. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.” ~ Michelle Obama
68. “Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the kind of person who can.” ~ Anonymous
69. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become achieving your goals.” ~ Johann Wolfgang
70. “Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” ~ Bo Bennett
71. “The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.” ~ Napoleon Hill
72. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” ~ Harry S. Truman
73. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ~ Walt Disney
74. “The only goals you don’t achieve in life are the goals you don’t set.” ~ Matt Fox
75. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” ~ Proverb
76. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
77. “You are the greatest achievement of your own life.” ~ Sarah Rees Brennan
78. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~ Helen Keller
79. “Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.” ~ George Alexiou
80. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” ~ Napoleon Hill
81. “The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.” ~ Charles J. Givens
82. “To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.” ~ Kevin Michel
83. “You can’t hit a target unless you are aiming for it, and you can’t achieve a goal without having it.” ~ Shawn Doyle
84. “Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.” ~ Paul J. Meyer
85. “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
86. “The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.” ~ Bo Bennett
87. “Putting ideas, goals, and daily objectives down on paper helps immensely in our ability to achieve them and remain focused.” ~ Justin Byers
88. “With your entire focus on your goal, you will reach levels of achievement that you never thought possible.” ~ Catherine Pulsifer
89. “The important thing is to find your true source of inspiration and to remain focused in the achievement of your goals.” ~ Sara Wellington
90. “A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.” ~ Kurt Lewin

Success and Achievement Quotes

91. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” ~ C. S. Lewis
92. “Let today be the day that you become committed in being, in doing, in getting, achieving, in experiencing. Let today be the day that you are committed to being the change you wish to see and living the life you wish to live.” ~ Steve Maraboli
93. “There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.” ~ George Washington Carver
94. “To be successful, one has to be one of three bees” ~ the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.” ~ Suzy Kassem
95. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
96. “Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.” ~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
97. “What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
98. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” ~ Chris Grosser
99. “Don’t mistake activity with achievement.” ~ John Wooden
100. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” ~ Albert Einstein
101. “Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.” ~ Albert Camus
102. “The most direct path to achievement whether you’re an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.” ~ Maynard Webb
103. “A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” ~ Bo Bennett
104. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” ~ Golda Meir
105. “Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn’t be its precondition.” ~ Alain de Botton
106. “Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn’t all have to be by tomorrow!” ~ William Eardley IV
107. “Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
108. “Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.” ~ Shannon A. Thompson
109. “The difference between setting a goal and achieving it is in having a good plan and working it.” ~ Les Brown
110. “I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it.” ~ Michael Jordan
111. “Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.” ~ Robert Vaughn
112. “The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits.” ~ Shirley Corder
113. “Struggling is hard, so is achieving success; so you may as well choose success, over time it’ll seem easier.” ~ Rob Liano
114. “Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.” ~ Ben Stein
115. “The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.” ~ Denis Waitley
116. “The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.” ~ Dale Carnegie
117. “Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.” ~ Robert K. Greenleaf
118. “It is quite okay for you to acknowledge other people as positive influences in your life and let their achievements inspire you.” ~ Luke Gregory
119. “We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.” ~ Richard J. Daley
120. “Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.” ~ Blaise Pascal

Quotes about Achievement

121. “In an ideal world, nobody’s work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.” ~ Barry Schwartz
122. “If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don’t let them interrupt or alter your song.” ~ Suzy Kassem
123. “People have a tremendous capacity for outstanding achievement. There are also many extraordinary capacities that allow them to become high achievers.” ~ Steve Brunkhorst
124. “Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.” ~ Willa Cather
125. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ~ Paulo Coelho
126. “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” ~ Anthony Joshua
127. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” ~ Vince Lombardi
128. “And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ~ Paulo Coelho
129. “Developing a desire to learn is the kindling point of all classroom achievement.” ~ Robert John Meehan
130. “I can make it a day long to be remembered for its joy, its beauty and its achievements, or it can be filled with pettiness.” ~ Anonymous
131. “Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down…or prisons self-imposed.” ~ Chriscinthia Blount
132. “You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.” ~ Claude M. Bristol
133. “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” ~ Brian Tracy
134. “You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.” ~ Les Brown
135. “To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” ~ Anatole France
136. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
137. “Achievement, in the long run, is that which serves the betterment of those around us through sharing, giving, encouragement and compassion.” ~ Byron R. Pulsifer
138. “Every achievement, from the Nobel Prize to the Oscars, begins with “what if”, consciously or unconsciously.” ~ Mark Batterson
139. “Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
140. “The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.” ~ Fridtjof Nansen

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