Quotes About Achievement

One day I'll make it." Is your goal taking up so much of your attention that you reduce the present moment to a means to an end? Is it taking the joy out of your doing? Are you waiting to start living? If you develop such a mind pattern, no matter what you achieve or get, the present will never be good enough; the future will always seem better. A perfect recipe for permanent dissatisfaction and nonfulfillment

Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure.

The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.

When doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of Being, that is success.

Your physical energy is also subject to cycles. It cannot always be at a peak. There will be times of low as well as high energy. There will be periods when you are highly active and creative, but there may also be times when everything seems stagnant, when it seems that you are not getting anywhere, not achieving anything.

What the world doesn't tell you—because it doesn't know—is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, can not come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event – through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you – ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

Any lesson from the past becomes relevant and is applied now. Any planning as well as working toward achieving a particular goal is done now.

El viaje de su vida tiene un propósito externo y otro interno. El propósito externo es llegar a su meta o destino, lograr lo que decide hacer, alcanzar esto o aquello, lo que por supuesto, implica futuro.

Does it matter whether we achieve our outer purpose, whether we succeed or fail in the world? It will matter to you as long as you haven't realized your inner purpose. After that, the outer purpose is just a game that you may continue to play simply because you enjoy it.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness.

This is why Ralph Waldo Emerson said that, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm."2

El fracaso se esconde en cada éxito y el éxito en cada fracaso.

When you give more attention to the doing than to the future result that you want to achieve through it, you break the old egoic conditioning

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

Every person has his or her own Annapurna." I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life—challenges I wasn't sure I could meet—but that "the real Annapurna was my last one." For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.

there is nothing else in life like getting to the summit. What's more, I've always felt that the greater the challenge, the greater the reward.

No matter what the future holds in store, I can say now—out loud, without hesitation—something that, sadly, all too few men and women can ever say: I have lived my dream.

The famous last line of Herzog's book is "There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Safety is first; fun is second; success is third.

A great climb is a wonderful mixture of difficulty and intimacy.

a simple but stark criterion: the number of climbers who successfully reach the summit compared to the number who die on the mountain. For Everest, the ratio turns out to be seven to one. For K2, which has the reputation of being the hardest and most dangerous of the high peaks, the ratio is a little over three to one. But for Annapurna, it's exactly two to one. For every two climbers who get to the top, one climber dies trying.

Stamina is the big thing you have to learn if you want to achieve success in any kind of career, but especially creative careers.

Cuando llegamos a la Luna, ese fue el momento en que Dios debió haber venido y decir hola. Porque si inventas algunas criaturas, los pones en azul y llegan al gris, es el jodido momento de aparecer y decir bien hecho.