A collection of the best accomplishment quotes to inspire you to reach for the stars and do everything that you can to achieve your dreams.
Accomplishments, achievements, and success differ from one person to another. We all have to take different paths and go through our own journeys to achieve these accomplishments.
That’s why it is important to remember to never compare your achievements and yourself to others. Instead, focus all your energy on your own journey. Do what you can and continue to strive despite difficulties and setbacks.
Remember, that your accomplishment and your success depend on the effort and the heart that you put into it every single day.
And if you need a little motivation to help you keep going, these quotes about accomplishments below will surely do the trick.
May these motivational quotes inspire you to dream big, work hard and keep going.
Accomplishments quotes and sayings
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
— Zig Ziglar
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
A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
— John Foster Dulles
You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
— Aly Raisman
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
— Harry S. Truman
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
— Jim Rohn
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
— Lao Tzu
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
— Jimmy Johnson
When your dreams include service to others – accomplishing something that contributes to others – it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
— Jack Canfield
Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.
— Idowu Koyenikan
A great accomplishment shouldn’t be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.
— Harvey Mackay
If you’re going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you’re going to half-ass it, why bother?
— Ashly Lorenzana
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
— Malcolm X
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
— Thomas Carlyle
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.
— Mikhail S. Gorbachev
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
— Elinor Smith
There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.
— Idowu Koyenikan
Motivational Accomplishment quotes
Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
— Mary Lou Retton
One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.
— Karen Casey
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
— John F. Kennedy
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
Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment.
— Chris Evert
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
— Orison Swett Marden
To accomplish a difficult task one must first make it easy.
— Marty Rubin
It’s a great sense of accomplishment when you can take something and really think it’s really tough, and then all of a sudden you conquer it. That makes you feel pretty good.
— Jack Nicklaus
There exists a sacred strength for every great accomplishment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.
— Brian Tracy
If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.
— Deng Ming-Dao
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
— Oprah Winfrey
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
— Colin Powell
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
— Herodotus
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
— Sandra Day O’Connor
There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, it’s for some other.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Inspirational Accomplishment quotes
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
— Oscar Wilde
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There’s nothing wrong with being happy about an accomplishment, but beware of the pitfalls of too much praise and adulation.
— Linda Barbosa
Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
— Douglas Pagels
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
— Thomas A. Edison
There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t. If you’re qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes!
— Jan Ashford
A sense of accomplishment comes when you have completed the tasks for the goals you have set for yourself.
— Brenda Johnson Padgitt
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
— Henry Ford
Every achievement is servitude. It compels us to higher achievement.
— Albert Camus
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
— Bruce Feirstein
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
— John Wooden
History is replete with examples of those who lead by example, with wisdom, courage and love, guided by reflection and empathy, using their minds to accomplish what their hearts know to be true.
— John C. Kirkland
If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.
— Stuart Hill
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
— David Brinkley
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
— Robin Sharma
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
— Winston Churchill
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.
— Steve Chandler
Reading other people’s stories can give you inspiration and hope and can be a reminder to you that you to can accomplish great things.
— Catherine Pulsifer
Encouraging Accomplishment quotes
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain
Making yourself indispensable is sure to increase your level of confidence, sense of security, and ultimate feeling of accomplishment and fulfillment.
— Mark Samuel
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.
— Ray Goforth
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
— Thomas J. Watson
I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things.
— Lech Walesa
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
— John D. Rockefeller
The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish.
— Brian Koslow
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
— Napoleon Hill
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
— Vince Lombardi
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
— William Blake
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
— Aristotle
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
— Paulo Coelho
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
— Georgia O’Keeffe
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
— Michael John Bobak
When a person is connected to its true essence, there is nothing more rewarding than continuously developing it; there is no money that can buy the pleasure of putting into practice the talents each person has.
— Claudia Acevedo
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
There will be some days when you have absolutely zero motivation to accomplish the tasks that you have pre-set out for yourself to do. However, just being aware of this helps combat the laziness that will ultimately tempt you.
— Jacob Reimer
It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.
— Martina Boone
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
More Accomplishment quotes and quotes about accomplishments
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
— Anatole France
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
— Thomas A. Edison
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
— Richard Bach
The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
— Vince Lombardi
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
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
— Abraham Lincoln
Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
— Jeanne Moreau
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
— Maxwell Maltz
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
— Charles Kettering
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
— Helen Hayes
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
— Warren G. Bennis
Every great accomplishment rests on the foundation of what came before it; when you trace it back, you’ll see one small step that started it all.
— Stephen Guise
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
— Helen Keller
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
— Georgia O’Keeffe
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.
— Lzzy Hale
Never mistake activity for achievement.
— John Wooden