Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 237
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.
Cinda Williams Chima
Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.
Hal Elrod
I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.
Ellen Swallow Richards
No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.
My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.
Kim Smith
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment
Stedman Graham
The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.
Romain Grosjean
On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.
Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.
Jane Bowles
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?
Steven Morrissey
Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children.
Jerry Pinkney
When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement
When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
