Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 42
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
Helen Mirren
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
John Ortberg
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With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
Jane Addams
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.
If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish.
Patrick Wolff
It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.
Regina Brett
... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.
Brandi Chastain
You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.
Whitey Herzog
…we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment (Sunflower Sutra)
Allen Ginsberg
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
Pat Summitt
Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
Ariel Pink
I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.
Mark Cuban
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See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
William Dean Howells
