Achievement Quotes - Page 38

• Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

  Mas Oyama

  Climbing, One Day, Technique

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• Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.

  David W. Orr

  Powerful, Journey, Long

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• The achievement of great things though comes from the ability to manage yourselfvery, very, very well. Or at least well enough where you almost become compulsive about getting certain things done. You have to set a standard for yourself that's.very, very, very high and you have to manage your thoughts to where they need to be allow yourself to be successful, at what your trying to do.

  Kai Greene

  Successful, Trying, Needs

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• It's good to be young and full of dreams. Dreams of one day doing something 'insanely great.' Dreams of love, beauty, achievement, and contribution. But understand they have a life of their own, and they're not very good at following instructions. Love them, revere them, nurture them, respect them, but don't ever become a slave to them. Otherwise you'll kill them off prematurely, before they get the chance to come true.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dream, Love Is, Following Instructions

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• In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ubuntu, Profound, Humanity

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• There is a Silence that is totally impersonal.
  It is not the fruit of anybody’s work.
  Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper.
  This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present.
  In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions.
  Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails.
  The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all.

  Mooji

  Silence, Noise, Fruit

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• Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Two

  Letter to J.S. Switzer on April 23, 1953. "The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry". Book by H. Floris Cohen, p. 234, 1994.

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• In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Horse, Dark

  Gustave Flaubert (1999). “Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

  Garrett Hardin

  Mother, Powerful, Mean

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• It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Inspirational, Men, Spectacular

  Henrik Ibsen (2014). “Ibsen Plays: 5: Brand; Emperor and Galilean”, p.52, A&C Black

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• Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Organization, Empowering

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.222, Harper Collins

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• Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Congratulations, Opportunity, Missing

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• Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Men, Personality

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.191, Routledge

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• I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Successful, Frustration

  "Tony Robbins: Unleashing the Power". Success Interview, www.success.com. December 1, 2008.

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• The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Mind, Literature

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.69, Cosimo Classics

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• Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search there above for the themes of our lives, for those frigid sympathies that participate in our achievements as well as our blunderings.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mean, Men, Law

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• Always work harder than other people are willing to work. Sweat more, endure more pain, and then reap the rewards of success and achievement.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Pain, Hard Work

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• Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  Franz Stampfl

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Life, Power, Perfect

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• Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

  Paul Henderson

  Contentment, Doe, Lord

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• A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

  Jean Helion

  Artist, Mature, Awareness

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• The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

  John Templeton

  Determination, Want, Way

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• Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

  Buck Rodgers

  Leadership, Individuality, Levels

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• The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Sound, Speech

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