Achievement Quotes - Page 18

• Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Past, Greatness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sports, Hero, Men

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.61, Vintage

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• The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Hero, Media, People

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• But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Men, Goal

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• We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

  H. G. Wells

  Hurt, War, Want

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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• A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Intelligence

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

  Pindar

  Success, Effort, Strive

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• I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Success, Attention, Knows

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.10

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• The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Knowing, Long

  "Pensées Diverses". Book by Baron de Montesquieu,

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• The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Success, Men, Hypocrisy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• Success causes us to be more praised than known.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Success, Causes, Known

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• Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Form, Conceit

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.51

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• Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

  Henry Fielding

  Success, Ill, Approach

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1783). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition. To which is Now First Added, The Fathers; Or, The Good-natured Man”, p.300

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• For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Hate, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

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• Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

  Pindar

  Success, Heart, Envious

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Success, Men, Events

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• The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

  Tom Baker

  Success, Long, Close Friends

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• The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

  Nancy Astor

  Success, Women, Bores You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Passion, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Education, Opportunity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Success, Air, Hands

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• Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Thinking, Hatred

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• He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Success, Heart, Bears

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