It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 152
I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.
Tinie Tempah
Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.
John Climacus
My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.
Viswanathan Anand
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No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.
Theobald Smith
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Natalie Wood
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
Albert Bandura
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.
I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,000, and to do that we need to increase production.
Salvador Allende
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein
It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.
Lake Bell
If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.
Rob Lowe
If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.
Yoshida Kenko
In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.
Stephan Kinsella
What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
Katy Lederer
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Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
Peter McWilliams
