Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Mark Twain

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

David Viscott

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

Diablo Cody

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

Denzel Washington

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).

Denis Waitley

Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

Charlene Tilton

But the sense of accomplishment is something I’ve never felt before, in a physical sense.

Jane Austen

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

Jane Austen

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Benjamin Disraeli

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Bear Grylls

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

Orlando Perez

We always have to push for better achievement.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

Denis Waitley

The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

Denis Waitley

Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

Denis Waitley

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

Denis Waitley

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Alain de Botton

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

Alain de Botton

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.