Achievement Quotes - Page 21

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life.

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

We reject certain food because it is rotten. Certain food we can see is fresh. But there is this creative space between fresh food and rotten food where most of human culture's most prized delicacies and culinary achievements exist.

Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.

The only failure is not trying.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper. This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present. In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions. Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails. The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all.

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself.

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Just like everything else in our lives, with the good comes the bad. It applies to success as well. Success isn't a destination, it's a journey - a journey that will be sure to come with lots of great achievements and lots of setbacks. You have the power to decide if those downsides are going to define you in a negative way or a positive way.

I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.