Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Quote by Vanna Bonta

Topics: Achievement Quotes

Don't count your check-ins before they cash.

Don't count your check-ins before they cash.

Love is its own reward.

Love is its own reward.

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks...

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks...

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system...

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system...

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when...

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when...

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.

Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad...

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad...

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed...

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed...

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they...

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they...

I hate track! I hate running! Running around and around and around and around, and...

I hate track! I hate running! Running around and around and around and around, and...

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark...

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark...

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy....

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy....

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts...

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts...