I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughed - "people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of course, if all I did was wipe tables, then of course it would seem a mean and despicable waste of my huge intellectual potential. But because I choose to do it, it gives me pleasure. And," the man said with a smile, "it's a good way of meeting people. So where are you from, anyway?
Iain M. BanksStichwörter: choice people time death stars pleasure achievement utopia the-universe meeting-people wiping-tables
Achievements - Dreams= Action; Achievements-Actions= Dreams; Achievement= Dreams+Action
George Akomas JrStichwörter: success dreams-quotes achievement
Struggling is hard, so is achieving success; so you may as well choose success, over time it’ll seem easier.
Rob LianoStichwörter: success struggle achievement
The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.
Richelle E. GoodrichStichwörter: goals success progress accomplishment failure achievement gain richelle good-luck richelle-goodrich
Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.
Orrin WoodwardStichwörter: success achievement
When you set your mind to achieve something, you must allow yourself the opportunity to get it done.
What Makes You GreatStichwörter: achievement oppotunities
The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.
J. Cornell MichelStichwörter: goals happiness beauty goal happy control depression achievement apocalypse expectations unhappiness apocalyptic helping-others help hard-work beautiful superiority zombie depressing superior pretty ordinary-people zombies helping unhappy crush depressed achieve ordinary ordinariness expect pretty-girls crushed work-hard zombie-apocalypse pretty-people enamored ordinary-looking ordinary-looks
True success is not measured by how much you have achieved but by how many times you've failed
Brian LeslieStichwörter: success failure achievement
Trust what you know; have faith in where you go; if there's no wind, row; or go with the flow.
Ed Parrish IIIStichwörter: confidence direction achievement act believe-in-yourself
I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn’t.
Roz SavageStichwörter: kindness criticism achievement self-doubt best-friends
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