It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all by himself; and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. It?s our only joke. Every woman knows that.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lie not in great things but in little. The rarity of happiness among those who achieved much is evidence that achievement is not in itself the assurance of a happy life. The great like the humble may have to find their satisfaction in the same plain things.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them…. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they dont stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the sidelines. For those who play the game an hour may be a year a single days work an achievement for eternity.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
No matter what our achievements might be we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
You can do what you want to do accomplish what you want to accomplish attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind… Not all of a sudden perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement…. But you can do it graduallyday by day and play by playif you want to do it if you will to do it if you work to do it over a sufficiently long period of time.
With all humility I think Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might. Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love ones neighbor as ones self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
I hope my achievements in life shall be these: That I will have fought for what was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered that I will have given help to those who were in need … That I will have left the earth a better place for what Ive done and who Ive been.
Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that mens virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note a short saying or a jest shall distinguish a persons real character more than the greatest sieges or the most important battle.
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words … love and achievement…. Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy…. The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.
It isnt the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life you need to project the end result. Think of the elation the satisfaction thej oy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem goal or desire is. If youre not clear about this then write it down and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage – if youll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and youll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.
It isnt the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
If you can believe it the mind can achieve it.
Take care of those who work for you and youll float to greatness on their achievements.
The awareness of the ambiguity of ones highest achievements (as well as ones deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside.
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all by himself; and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. It?s our only joke. Every woman knows that.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
4. Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lie not in great things but in little. The rarity of happiness among those who achieved much is evidence that achievement is not in itself the assurance of a happy life. The great like the humble may have to find their satisfaction in the same plain things.
We can spend our whole lives underachieving.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them…. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they dont stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in anothers keeping.
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the sidelines. For those who play the game an hour may be a year a single days work an achievement for eternity.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
No matter what our achievements might be we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
You can do what you want to do accomplish what you want to accomplish attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind… Not all of a sudden perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement…. But you can do it graduallyday by day and play by playif you want to do it if you will to do it if you work to do it over a sufficiently long period of time.
With all humility I think Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might. Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love ones neighbor as ones self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
I hope my achievements in life shall be these: That I will have fought for what was right and fair that I will have risked for that which mattered that I will have given help to those who were in need … That I will have left the earth a better place for what Ive done and who Ive been.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising ones levels of aspiration . . and expectation.
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.
Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that mens virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note a short saying or a jest shall distinguish a persons real character more than the greatest sieges or the most important battle.
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words … love and achievement…. Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy…. The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.
All achievement is the triumph of persistence.
Lifes greatest achievement is the continual re-making of yourself so that at last you know how to live.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
It isnt the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life you need to project the end result. Think of the elation the satisfaction thej oy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem goal or desire is. If youre not clear about this then write it down and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage – if youll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and youll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing.
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
It isnt the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
Young people tell what they are doing old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.