Achievement Quotes - Page 18

There is no shortcut to achievement.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement.

The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium, roused to do our best, by every good writer, every fine achievement. Would we want one good writer or fine book less? The sense of writers being pitted against each other is bred primarily by the workings of the commercial marketplace, and by critics lauding one writer at the expense of another while ignoring the existence of nearly all.

Living for God's glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives.

It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.

I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

A wish is a desire without energy

Education is the great engine to personal development.

To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end... THIS is achievement

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.