To a writer the brain's greatest achievement is literature
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
The future is not a giftâit is an achievement.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.