~ The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ~
~ All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts ~
~ To be free is to have achieved your life. ~
~ Achievement brings its own anticlimax. ~
~ Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. ~
~ Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement ~
~ Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! ~
~ No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are. ~
~ Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. ~
~ Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ~