Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 159

Your only competitors are your past achievements.
Your only competitors are your past achievements.
 James Cameron
Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.
I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'
 Beyonce Knowles
The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response.
 John Eliot
To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.
 John Eliot
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.
It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.
 Eknath Easwaran
I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
 Frank McCourt
Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships
 Gary Chapman
We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.
We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.
 Richard Willstatter
I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve.
 Emma Walton Hamilton
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.
 Robert McKee
There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
 Phillips Brooks
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
 Robert Collier
Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.
 James Arthur Ray
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
 Wernher von Braun
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
 John Carmack
Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that\'s an achievement.
Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.
 John Maus
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.