It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.
Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 31
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
Karl Radek
Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.
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Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
Tullian Tchividjian
True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.
Y. C. James Yen
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.
Reinhard Bonnke
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
Emile M. Cioran
Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
Work hard at work worth doing.
While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.
Eli Broad
We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
Liev Schreiber
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
