#achievement

Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#achievement #death #life #work #death

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#been #best #century #congress #despair

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#achievements #comes #dessert #fame #itself

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#achievements #bent #bit #career #comes

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #hand

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #around #clear #data #eyes

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#achievements #act #average #demands #down

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. ↗

— Michael Korda

#always #been #between #distance #easy

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. ↗

— Henry Ford

#even #may #mistake #necessary #one thing

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship. ↗

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#am #castro #dictatorship #embargo #i