Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.
Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.
Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.
Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.
Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.
Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. . . . Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
Your obstacles define your achievements, and without those obstacles, you're just another bland nothing.
There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.