Achievement Quotes - Page 40

• Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

  George Gilder

  Effort, World, Belief

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.103, Regnery Publishing

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• The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fear, Recovery, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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• Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Fear Of Failure, Driven

  "Lesson #4: Break Through That Wall". www.evancarmichael.com.

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• Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

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• It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

  David Millar

  Romantic, Fighting, Winning

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• . .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Children, Believe

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• The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Decision

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• Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

  James Heckman

  Teacher, Educational, School

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• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

  Royal Robbins

  Ambition, Thinking, Climbing

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• Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or as a recollection or even as an evaluation from others. lt's not something that you can physically hold onto or repeat at will. Only when you acknowledge the special moments can you truly feel the effects of your most wonderful achievements.

  Tommy Tune

  Ballet, Special, Doe

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• The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

  Janet Jackson

  Self Love, God Love, Humans

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• Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

  Adolf Galland

  Stronger, Air Power, Aviation

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Government, Independence, Able

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• The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Long

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• From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Blessing, Views

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

  Anna Paquin

  Art, Thinking, Careers

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• Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Thinking, Doctrine

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• When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, School, Simple

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

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• Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.

  Italo Calvino

  Goal, Tasks, Alive

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Adventure, Noble, Obscure

  "Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader".

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• When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Beginners, Doctrine

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• Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Maturity, Rocks

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• We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Two, Effort, Adults

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• Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

  Iain Banks

  Exercise, Skills, Feelings

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

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