Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 193

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
 James Taylor
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
 Arthur Compton
An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.
 Kip Tindell
On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.
We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are.
 Tara Brach
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
 Tim Ferriss
Achievement is its own reward
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.
 Stephen Bayley
Great accomplishment seems imperfect,
Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
Great fullness seems empty,
Yet it cannot be exhausted.
Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
 Renee Fleming
The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.
 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
 Aeschylus
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.
 Al Pacino
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.
Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
People always ask me to list my greatest accomplishments, expecting me to rattle off a bunch of movies I've made, but what I'm proudest of is my kids.
 Mel Gibson
American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.
American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.
 Simon Heffer