Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 104
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.
Marshall Goldsmith
Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.
Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.
We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.
Laszlo Nemes
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
Robert M. Hutchins
Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and economic salvation in the framework of democracy, in the framework of an open economy.
Manmohan Singh
Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
Sheryl Crow
Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
William Least Heat-Moon
I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.
Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.
Blake Mycoskie
I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.
Dan Bejar
The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.
Walter Kasper
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
James Russell Lowell
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.
Chris Evert
There’s nothing better than excelling at a game you love. There’s nothing worse than thinking your accomplishments as a player outweigh your responsibilities as a person.
Doug Flutie