Quotes About Achievement

It was as if, having met so many of my own goals, some perverse organ of my brain was busy creating new, spurious ones.

could not suppress comparisons of myself with others. How come I'm not doing what he or she is doing? Look where she is, and look where I am. Pathetic!

Rapid change makes people very unhappy." The result is what she calls the paradox of frustrated achievers and happy peasants.

Jonathan Rogers

By the first century, a complete system of universal, compulsory education was in place, an achievement the Talmud attributes to Yehoshua b. Gamla (Bava Batra 21a), the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

That is the nature of Jewish faith – not security but the courage to live with insecurity, knowing that life is a battle, but that if we do justice and practise compassion, if we honour great and small, the powerful and the powerless alike, if our eyes do not look down to the earth and its seductions but to heaven and its challenges, this small, vulnerable people is capable of great, even astonishing, achievements.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.

Thus, those with long and glittering careers (e.g. me) tend to look down on those (e.g. Ascobol) whose names have been unearthed more recently, and haven't amassed so many fine achievements.

Well," Lockwood said, "if you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening.

With my own fair hands.

Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book [A Tale of a Tub].

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

A dream will never be reality, unless you make it reality

All is well that ends well

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.

And Imma show em. Blow em out the water slaughter em homes. Imma own so many belts. Only place they can hit me is below em.