Achievement Quotes to Motivate You for Massive Success

When we aim to achieve, everyone’s path is unique. We want to help inspire you to become the very best version of yourself and give you the motivational words to do it! Looking for achievement quotes to guide you on your journey towards success? Let’s help raise you up on your journey.

Here is our latest collection of success quotes to help you develop the mindset and vision to live your best life!

How successful do you want to be? Where do you want to be in the next 5, 10, 15 years?

Life can be short, but it’s also long enough for us to make great things happen.

Success comes down to our attitude, effort, and focus.

If you want to be successful, it’s vital that you study other successful people.

That’s why we have provided these inspirational achievement quotes from some of the most thriving people the world has ever known.

Achievement quotes can inspire us to push past our limits, challenge our beliefs, and inspire us to emulate the greats in history.

Realize your dreams and biggest goals by developing the psychology of a winner.

These goals quotes and sayings are the mental food of winners and the language of champions!

These words are meant for you! Let these achievement quotes inspire you to become great at whatever you choose to do.

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Inspirational achievement quotes about success and greatness

1. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”

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

3. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

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

5. “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.”

6. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” – Swami Vivekananda

7. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

8. “Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”

9. “If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” 

10. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

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11. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb

12. “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.”

13. “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah

14. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

15. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

16. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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17. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

18. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents – start charging for it.” – Kim Garst

19. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

20. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Famous achievement quotes and sayings to inspire you

21. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford
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22. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

23. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

24. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.”

25. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde

26. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

27. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein

28. “When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.” – Lolly Daskal

29. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

30. “No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.”

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31. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

32. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein

33. “Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”

34. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”

35. “What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable.” 

36. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.”

38. “Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.”

39. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.”

40. “You can do anything, but not everything.”

Achievement quotes to help you reach your highest potential

41. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

42. “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

43. “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” – Dr. APJ Kalam

44. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

45. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill

46. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier

47. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” – Thomas J. Watson

48. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

49. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos

50. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

Remarkable achievement quotes and sayings to help you reach your goals

51. “Achievement is not about ‘doing something.’ Rather, it’s about ‘being someone.”― Craig D. Lounsbrough

52. “Realize, rise and act – make mistakes, fall hard, then rise again and try again.”― Abhijit Naskar

53. “It is little keys that open up big doors.” – On small steps leading to great achievements”― Lamine Pearlheart

54. “Mistakes are the foundation of achievement.”― Steven Magee

55. “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

56. “There can be no real achievement without any struggle!”― Avijeet Das

57. “To succeed, you must never give on yourself.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

58. “Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.”― Anonymous

59. “If you keep working at it, if you keep moving forward, you will achieve what you want.”― Leigh Shulman

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60. “To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.”― Les Brown

61. “If you go out without a plan, you will return home without any achievement.”― Awolumate Samuel

62. “You have a choice, you can be someone who makes it happen or someone who lets it happen.”― Bobby Darnell

63. “If talent is the floor and character the ceiling, then work-ethic is the altitude of personal achievement.”― Orrin Woodward

64. “Accept no limitations and you’ll have no limitations.”
― Clyde Lee Dennis

65. “Greatness is never achieved in the realm of dreams but in the realm of reality and the only way to achieving that greatness is to convert your time into added value to yourself and then to others.”― Sunday Adelaja

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

Other motivational achievement quotes

67. “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

68. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman

69. “Don’t mistake activity with achievement.” – John Wooden

70. “To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

71. “Achievement has no color.” – Abraham Lincoln

72. “Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.” – Vera Nazarian

73. “You are the greatest achievement of your own life.” – Sarah Rees Brennan

74. “Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.” – Albert Camus

75. “Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

We hope you enjoyed these awesome achievement quotes!

It’s not easy to believe in your dreams. But with perseverance, time, and the right people beside you, nothing’s impossible. Not to folks who believe.

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