Achievement Quotes - Page 19

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

It is easier to stay out than get out.

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

Human ambitions are like Japanese carp; they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.

All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

How my achievements mock me!

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.

The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.

My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it's a Lux ad.

"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.