Quotes about Achievements

What you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based… never compromise with honesty

In Habit 2, Stephen challenges us to envision our own funeral, and consider, "What would you like each of the speakers to say about you and your life?… What character would you like them to have seen in you? What contributions, what achievements would you want them to remember?

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

Really, Watson, you excel yourself, said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

Peace hath her victories no less renown'd than war.

I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

Some people are focused on their losses, their flaws, their mistakes, the times they didn't measure up. You need to focus on your victories, focus on the times you succeeded, you resisted the temptation, you were disciplined.