Quotes on Achievement

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.