Achieve Quotes - Page 7

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in perfect health that all sickness is forgotten, all the powers of mind will proceed to create health, and every trace of sickness will soon disappear. When the mind becomes so completely absorbed in higher attainments and in greater achievements that all thought of failure is forgotten, all the forces of mind will begin to work for the promotion of those attainments and achievements. The person will be gaining ground every day, and greater success will positively follow.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure.

Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.

If we set our minds, we can achieve anything.

Discipline is the fuel of achievement.

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.

Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then sit down as friends over a drink or dinner. This habit is often interpreted by the layman as a mark of their ultimate corruption. In my opinion, it is their greatest moral achievement: It is a characteristic of humane tolerance that is most desperately needed at the present time.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.