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Quotes: Achievement

A Select Collection of Inspiring Quotes on Achievement

By , About.com Guide

As the sand in the hourglass of life keeps running out, the time that we have to achieve our ideals keeps reducing. If you find yourself wishing that you had just a little more time to achieve your dreams, read these inspiring quotes. Achievement means constant action towards a distant goal. These quotes inspire you to do just that.

Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Vincent Van Gogh
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Theodore Rubin
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Thomas A. Bennett
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Edward F. Halifax
He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Stanislaw J. Lec
He who limps is still walking.

Gian-Carlo Menotti
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

Les Brown
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

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