#achievement

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 there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#any #done #our #own #terms

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#continual #growth #improvement #meaning #progress

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. ↗

— Willard Libby

#clearly #deal #done #forth #goals

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#contemplation #highest #home #man #them

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#battle #bring #ceaseless #constant #great

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#always #any #best #circumstances #effort

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#achievement #best #big #depend #get

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself. ↗

— David Millar

#also #back #bikes #bones #break

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#almost #been #biggest #club #cups