We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
– Chuck Swindoll
Achievement
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
– Augustine
Prayer | Achievement | Work
When it is a question of God’s almighty Spirit, never say, “I can’t.”
– Oswald Chambers
The Holy Spirit | Achievement
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
– George Macdonald
AchievementWork
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
– A. W. Tozer
Achievement
What you can’t go through, God will help you fly over.
– Woodrow Kroll
Achievement
They always win who side with God.
– Frederick W. Faber
Achievement
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
– Billy Sunday
Achievement | Men
The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Achievement
God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.
– Jack Hyles
Achievement
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
– Florence Nightingale
Fear | Achievement
When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
– Chuck Swindoll
Achievement | Vision
Fear God and work hard.
– David Livingstone
Achievement | Work
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
– George Washington Carver
Achievement | Humility
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
– Chuck Swindoll
Achievement | Vision |Attitude
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
– Helen Keller
Achievement
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
– Helen Keller
Achievement | Friendship
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
– Chuck Swindoll
Life | Achievement | Excellence
If you want to reach a goal, you must “see the reaching” in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
– Zig Ziglar
Achievement | Goals
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.
– George Washington Carver
Achievement
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development–
– C.S. Lewis
Achievement | Perseverance
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
– David Livingstone
Achievement | Sympathy
Alleged “impossibilities” are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
– Chuck Swindoll
Achievement
If you don’t do your part, don’t blame God.
– Billy Sunday
Achievement
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
– Zig Ziglar
AchievementGoals
If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
– Zig Ziglar
Achievement
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
– Thomas Aquinas
Achievement | Excellence | Work
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
– George Washington Carver
Achievement
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
– Chuck Swindoll
Achievement
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
– George Washington Carver
Encouragement | Achievement
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
– Zig Ziglar
Achievement | Business
Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.
– Henry Drummond
Achievement | Life | Learning
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
– Oswald Chambers
Achievement
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
– Matthew Henry
Achievement
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
– Charles Spurgeon
Achievement
Prospect is often better than possession.
– Thomas Fuller
Achievement
It’s not the having, it’s the getting.
– Charles Spurgeon
Achievement
Put the very best construction on the actions of others.
– Jonathan Goforth
Achievement
The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.
– Thomas Adams
Achievement
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
– Augustine
Achievement
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
– Thomas Fuller
Achievement | Knowledge
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day, and in the morning what thou hast to do; dress and undress thy soul; mark the decay or growth of it. If with thy watch, that too be down, then wind up both. Since thou shalt be most surely judged, make thine accounts agree.
– George Herbert
Achievement | Judging
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
– Helen Keller
Achievement
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
– William Gurnall
Achievement
Little opportunities should be improved.
– Francois Fenelon
Achievement
Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
– William Law
Achievement
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Achievement
Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
– Hannah More
Achievement | Goals
I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Achievement | Struggles
I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.
– Francois Fenelon
Achievement | Providence
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Achievement
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
– Francis de Sales
Achievement
Ability is sexless.
– John Henry Newman
Achievement
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Achievement
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man’s hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.
– George Herbert
Achievement | Business
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Achievement | Greed
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
– George Washington Carver
Achievement
Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
– Charles Spurgeon
Achievement | Depression
Care and diligence bring luck.
– Thomas Fuller
Achievement | Discretion | Diligence
The man who gets ahead is the man who works while others sleep.
– Jack Hyles
Achievement | Work
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
– Francis Bacon
Achievement
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
– Henry Drummond
Achievement
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
– Helen Keller
Achievement
We must use time creatively.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Achievement
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Pride | Achievement
Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
– Dwight L. Moody
Achievement
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
– Helen Keller
Achievement
Those who would bring great things to pass must rise early. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.
– Matthew Henry
FinancesAchievement
There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
– George Macdonald
Achievement
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Achievement | Examples
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion; makes the thought start into instant action, and at once plans and performs, resolves, and executes!
– Hannah More
Achievement
Progress is the real cure for an over estimate of ourselves.
– George Macdonald
Achievement
We do not trust God, but tempt him, when our expectations slacken our exertions.
– Matthew Henry
Achievement | Trust
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
– Alexandre Vinet
God | Achievement
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
– Helen Keller
Hope | Achievement
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.
– Hosea Ballou
Achievement | Business | Work
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
– C.S. Lewis
Failure | Achievement
A trade founded in iniquity, and carried on as this was, must be abolished, let the policy be what it might, let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest till I had effected its abolition.
– William Wilberforce
Compassion | Achievement
There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
– George Washington Carver
Prayer | Achievement
It is the function of perfection to make one know one’s imperfection.
– Augustine
Achievement | Character
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
– Florence Nightingale
Achievement | Feelings
Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
– Ravi Zacharias
Achievement |Perseverance
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
– John C. Maxwell
Achievement
Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
– J.I. Packer
Achievement | WisdomGoals
Good is not good, where better is expected.
– Thomas Fuller
Achievement
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Achievement | America | Liberty