Quotes About Achievement

When we adopt this particular ego mask, we invest ourselves in the notion that those who shine the brightest are loved the most. This comes from the distorted idea that meaning and acceptance come from what we do, not who we are. We buy into the widespread notion that "light" emanates from our achievements, not from the divine fire within our soul.

Your moment will come because you will make it come.

In these last minutes, what did he most want to hear—that he'd been seen and heard in this world? That he'd accomplished what he'd set out to do? That he'd loved and been loved?

take credit, but it's all you. On a balmy afternoon

In these last minutes, what did he most want to hear-that he'd been seen and heard in this world? That he'd accomplished what he'd set out to do? That he'd loved and been loved?

In 2016, 83 percent of the winners in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair were children of immigrants.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, "Well done!

practice dissimulation, and you will succeed.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Triunfa el que elabora una táctica para conseguirlo, aprovecha su oportunidad, acepta sus debilidades y reconoce sus fortalezas.

Lo que permite al soberano sabio y al buen general, hacer la guerra y conquistar, y lograr cosas más allá del alcance de los hombres, es el conocimiento anticipado que tienen de las cosas. 5.

Donde hay grandes recompensas hay hombres valientes

You can know victory and still you won't achieve it.

Many great warriors beat their meat, but only the strongest defeat it.

En la guerra, el verdadero objetivo es alcanzar la victoria, y no realizar campañas largas.

the latter, hence Hou employed him. Their great achievements were all for the good of the people.

In war, appreciate victory, not a prolonged campaign.

Failure is Impossible

And then I did what no other athlete has done before. I won 2 Olympic gold medals in 2 different sports in the same afternoon. First I won the cross-country ski race. I went from home to Miller's Pond and won by so much I couldn't even see my competitors. But

but it finally occurred to me that the time was going to pass anyway, I might as well try to have something to show for it

All five of our twentieth-century literature Nobel laureates were alcoholics—Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck.

I'd rather be a first-rate failure than a second-rate success.