#achievement

Don't mistake activity with achievement. ↗

— John Wooden

#acquirement #act #action #activity #attainment

Decent people have too much respect for others to be overachievers. ↗

— Bauvard

#decency #funny #humor #funny

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#along #beings #believe #better #come

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing. ↗

— Chili Davis

#game #i #individual #playing #stayed

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#continual #growth #improvement #meaning #progress

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #chaos #common #democracy #fatal

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#achievements #all nations #century #charter #crystallized

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement. ↗

— Brian May

#achievement #be the first #big #big thing #first

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#amazing #elected #handed #hard #help

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#always #assume #cannot #expect #facilitate