Quotes About Achievement

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

You are growth-seeking Beings, and as you are moving forward, you are at your happiest.

There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it.

Struggle, struggle, struggle never leads to a happy ending. It defies Law. "When I get there, then I'll be happy" is not a productive mind-set because unless you are happy, you cannot get there. When you decide to first be happy—then you will get there.

Let Us Remove the Trees from Our Path

There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.

James Lister and Louis Pasteur were at first excluded from academic honor societies and laughed at for their theories on sterilization, vaccination, and pasteurization.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

When our goals become comparative, we end up with the constant paranoia of an existence of always being weighed on hidden scales, living with the stress of keeping our elbows out in anticipation of others trying to get ahead of us. All of this is a distortion of the wisdom of achievement, which lies hidden within the emotional energy of jealousy and envy.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

[To Ptolemy I:] There is no royal road to geometry.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Artists who seek perfection in everything achieve it in nothing (14 March 1858)

That's just the trouble, you make an effort to think about it. Concentrate entirely on your breathing, as if you had nothing else to do!" It took me a considerable time before I succeeded in doing what the Master wanted. But—I succeeded.

Ten, kdo má ujít 100 mil, by mÄ›l pokládat 99 mil za polovinu cesty.

He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Joel Henderson was once asked how he had managed to write all those books. He replied that he had never written a book. All he did was write one page a day. With his limited energy and restricted imagination, a page at a time was all that he could manage. But when a year was up he had a 365-page book.

We work hard for something, get it and then find we don't want it. We struggle for years to get to the top and find life there thoroughly boring.