Great Throughts Treasury

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Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

Achievement | Man | Success |

Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

All the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and the whole temple of man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

Achievement | Death | Devotion | Genius | Inspiration | Man | System | Universe |

Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower

The achievement of brotherhood is the crowning achievement of our society.

Achievement | Brotherhood | Society |

Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire make a small amount of heat.

Achievement | Desire | Mind |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Achievement | Children | Enjoyment | Success |

Thomas Carlyle

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

Achievement | Man | Wisdom | Value |

Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

Reverence requires imagination and vital warmth; it requires least actual achievement or power. The child is weak and superficially foolish, the teacher is strong, and in an everyday sense wiser than the child. The teacher without reverence, or the bureaucrat without reverence, easily despises the child for these outward inferiorities.

Achievement | Imagination | Power | Reverence | Sense | Child | Teacher |

Edward de Bono

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Achievement | Creativity | Fun | Hope | Life | Life | People |

Eddie Rickenbacker, formally Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Achievement | Confidence | Death | Life | Life | Will | Think |

Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm

The unity in productive (creative) work is not interpersonal; the unity achieved in orgiastic fusion is transitory; the unity achieved by conformity is only pseudo-unity. Hence they are only partial answers to the problem of existence. The full answer lies in the achievement of interpersonal union, of fusion with another person, in love.

Achievement | Conformity | Unity | Work |

Eddie Rickenbacker, formally Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Achievement | Confidence | Life | Life |

Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm

In spite of the universalistic spirit of the monotheistic Western religions and of the progressive political concepts that are expressed in the idea "that all men are created equal," love for mankind has not become a common experience. Love for mankind is looked upon as an achievement which, at best, follows love for an individual or as an abstract concept to be realized only in the future. But love for man cannot be separated from love for one individual. To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

Abstract | Achievement | Individual | Love | Man | Mankind | Means | Men | Necessity | Spirit |

Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Achievement | Joy |

George T. Lucas, fully George Walton Lucas, Jr.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Achievement |

Richard Niebuhr, fully Helmut Richard Niebuhr

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Achievement | Life | Life | Serenity | Wisdom |

Grenville Kleiser

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

Achievement | Life | Life | Work | Worth |

Henry Nelson Wieman

To get the viewpoint of the other person appreciatively and profoundly and reconcile it with his own so far as possible is the supreme achievement of man and his highest vocation.

Achievement | Man |