Quotes About Achievement

The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment...Held up against certain ideals of success, his life has been a deep disappointment. But he can also see that it is, in the end, no great achievement simply to fixate on the failure. There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.

the system glorified by John of Salisbury and John Fortescue, was unjust in a thousand all too obvious ways, but it offered those on the lowest rungs one notable freedom: the freedom not to have to take the achievements of quite so many people in society as reference points—and so find themselves severely wanting in status and importance as a result.

Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.

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excellence and, 'if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat'.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will guarantee us an enduring satisfaction. We are led to imagine ourselves scaling the steep sides of the cliff face of happiness to reach a wide, high plateau on which to continue our lives; we are not reminded that soon after reaching the summit we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.

It is easy to get upset about the deteriorating state of one's body, but there are other ways to excel and impress than via one's legs.

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

Efortul-o cale spre autenticitate ?i glorie.

What an achievement a moment of calm now is, what a minor miracle the ability to fall asleep or to talk undistracted with a friend – and what monastic discipline would be required to make us turn away from the maelstrom of news and listen for a day to nothing but the rain and our own thoughts.

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Searching represents the achievement of the goal of searching. Finding represents the achievement of the goal of finding.

The less you believe you have to do, the more you achieve what you need to do.

The vision you use determines the results you obtain.

To be all that we were meant to be and to do all that we were meant to do, is the only end in life. — Spinoza

There are seven reasons people go to work: (1) Money; (2) Passionate self-expression; (3) Rewarding relationships; (4) Service to improve others' lives; (5) Egoic achievement, competitive victory, or status; (6) Fear, guilt, obligation, rote habit, or debt to tradition; and (7) Avoidance of boredom or escape from a more unpleasant situation. We might boil this list down to two basic motivations: fear-based lack and joy-based expression.

you prove yourself worthy of an academic life is by getting very good grades, and you don't get very good grades without saying the sorts of things that your professors like to hear.

despite finishing first in my class at Yale Law School, I was rejected by all 32 of the law firms to which I applied.

When she was strong, she was unbeatable. When she was strong, she got things done.

We're just too good at our job." "Damn it," Valkyrie scowled. "I hate being too good at our job.

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.