#achievement

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#belongs #competitions #everybody #games #individual

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#achievement #day #eternity #game #good

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#air #bad #fresh #fresh air #good

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

#art #book #briefly #call #great

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren. ↗

— Marilyn Horne

#beautiful #daughter #grandchildren #real #three

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games. ↗

— John Hume

#achievement #achievements #avoided #before #complete

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#also #base #highest #i #i think

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. ↗

— Fred Allen

#around #dependence #each #go #goals

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. ↗

— James Allen

#acorn #angel #bird #dream #dreams

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#age #begin #embrace #growth #improve