Achieve Quotes - Page 16

Your only competitors are your past achievements.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

Comfort is the enemy of achievement.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

If we could combine Starbucks' spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.

It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.

The label of 'marathoner' has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled or tiptoed. When you cross that finish line, you've entered an elite group. About one-tenth of one percent of the population has done it. Don't let anyone take that great achievement away from you.

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.