Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 49

Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.
Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.
 Bill Courtney
Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
 Jason Kidd
To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
 Junot Diaz
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
 Henry Latham Doherty
Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.
 Peter Arno
I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.
 Laurie Halse Anderson
Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.
 Allen West
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.
What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.
 C. Wright Mills
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
 Alfred Lord Tennyson
A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.
 Jay McInerney
Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.
 Stefan Zweig
God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.
The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.
 Jeff Lindsay
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
 Guy Kawasaki
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
 Michael Pitt
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
 Richard Thompson
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
 Ray Kroc