Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 153
The house praises the carpenter.
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.
K.J. Parker
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.
To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.
In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.
Pauli Murray
Strong reasons make strong actions.
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
George Will
I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
Idris Elba
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
Omar N. Bradley
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.
William H. Hastie
Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.
Price Pritchett
Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.
Stephen Leacock
