Top 1200 Motivational Achievement Quotes & Sayings

Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and i fancy taking a crack at it.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

People always need to hear good motivational speeches.

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

I'm a motivational speaker, so I'm going to look at something in as much of a positive way as possible.

Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

I'm not one for those motivational speeches. I've always been more of an example guy.

The occasional motivational speech gig tends to pay better than the books and television.

Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

I am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.

If you dont measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

It's an achievement I can be happy about - if you call getting old and still being in a job an achievement.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

I'm a motivational speaker.

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

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Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.

I was a motivational speaker and I've been in front of crowds a lot and I'm very comfortable with that.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

It's definitely a motivational factor, becoming a three-organization world champion.

My father is my true inspiration. He's a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.

Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.

I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers.

Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement ahead of academic achievement. We spoil and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act spoiled and pampered as adults.

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

I used to watch a lot of motivational films and videos to remain positive.

Motivational speaking became my career. Who would ever have thought it?

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to do?" Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational ... stuff.

Beating a record for the oldest World Cup player means that it's an achievement for my country before it's an achievement for me.

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.