#achievement

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

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#acts #excluded #feats #hardest #hate

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts. ↗

— Willard Libby

#certain #certain degree #degree #efforts #group

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#arm #awakens #badge #between #certain

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

I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams. ↗

— Dara Torres

#ambition #dreams #experience #goals #identity

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#between #contrast #democracy #forever #heroic

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail. ↗

— George Alexiou

#achievement #chance #change #destiny #empowerment

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#achievement #after #afterglow #best #come