#achievement

My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by. ↗

— Kim Smith

#about #achievement #been #care #close

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. ↗

— Ben Stein

#advancement #fertile #grows #life #personal

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement. ↗

— Ben Stein

#alert #am #around #calmer #concentrate

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. ↗

— Harold Taylor

#become #best #lie #roots #true

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#adult #also #danish #deal #demands

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#alliance #divine #does #endurance #grandeur

Don't mistake activity with achievement. ↗

— John Wooden

#acquirement #act #action #activity #attainment

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels. ↗

— Ahmed H. Zewail

#life

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#achievements #career #clichés #double-standards #feminism

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be. ↗

— John Gardiner

#spiritual-growth #spiritual-growth