Achievement Quote by Vanna Bonta

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

— Edmund Burke

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

— A.J. Cronin

Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

— Robert Genn

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a…

— Ben Jonson

We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all…

— Helmut Schoeck

Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their…

— Baltasar Gracian

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior…

— Plutarch

It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey…

— Stefan Zweig

“IN WORKING WITH MIRRORS IT IS NECESSARY TO RECAPITULATE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, FROM THE PRESENT MOMENT RIGHT BACK TO THE MOMENT OF BIRTH. SUCH…

— Théun Mares