We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
– Winston S. Churchill
Tag Archives: Achievement
Persistence…
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.
– Gever Tulley
Do not…
Do not judge me by my success; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
– Nelson Mandela
Hold yourself…
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Master…
Master yourself and you master your environment. Such is the nature of wisdom.
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Don’t aim…
Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it
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There are…
There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed.
Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn’t require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.
– Michael Josephson
We…
We sometimes underestimate what we each can do to make things happen and overestimate what others need to do to move us forward
– Satya Nadella
Every day…
Every day the clock resets. Your wins don’t matter. Your failures don’t matter. Don’t stress on what was, fight for what could be.
– Sean Higgins
Character…
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed
– Cavett Robert
