#achievement

When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#happiness #truth #equality

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#arrogance #arrogant #boasting #bragging #challenges

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#alone #available #away #base #concrete

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

#charms #could #immortal #inspired #more

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general. ↗

— Kenny Cunningham

#achievements #always #fantastic #general #had

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement. ↗

— John Hope

#dissatisfaction #further #possession

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad. ↗

— Pringle Kennedy

#amazing #atheist #christian #culture #direction

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. ↗

— Hun Sen

#also #continuing #dangers #expose #failings

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#achieved #achievements #against #back #backdrop

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. ↗

— Edgar Lee Masters

#gift #immortality #mightily #only #possess