Quotes about Achievement

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young'un.

Competition brings out the best in everybody.

Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, no matter how virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882), the great American essayist, said "nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm." What a deconstructed culture lacks, because of its deep cynicism and pessimism about reality, is a basic confidence and enthusiasm that is necessary to start almost anything.