Quotes of: Achievers Keyword

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo

Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks looked at a building's blueprint, they pictured the building whole and complete. They e...

The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry

If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don’t have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don’t have to be supremely gifted teachers. Most of the stuff parents do with flashcards a...

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant in any of these worlds considered for a moment the possibility of resistance. In every case the attitude to disaster seemed to exp...

Star Maker

We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound sense of guilt and shame that is not meliorated merely by unearthing memories or focusing on the co...

First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance between two points. I've never had a knack for the active ...

Fernando Pessoa

Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.

City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier

You care, you dare and you share; this is the unforgettable rule of every true believer and achiever.

Daily Drive 365

How can I use what most excites me to achieve what I most want to be, do, or experience?

Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.

Dune

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

The Devil and Miss Prym

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

God Emperor of Dune

Life without challenge    is life denied any chance      for one to achieve.

Haiku to Live By: Life affirming messages, to hearten your day

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Half Broke Horses

The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

The Art of War

Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.

BE HAPPY NOW!

Think pleasantly; Think of how beautiful you are. Think of the families you are blessed with. Think of the dreams you have to achieve.

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Birthday, celebration of life. Celebrate who you are. Celebrate your uniqueness. Celebrate your achievement. Celebrate all that you are capable of becoming.

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It is better to experience moment of discomfort in the achievement of your dreams than to be comfortable without accomplishing your dreams.

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