2,199 Quotes About Achievement

We start feeling uneasy as soon as the initial euphoria or happiness from our achievement fades away. We then raise the bar further so that we can strive more and achieve even higher success thereby deliberately making ourselves unhappy. However, our lifelong chase of success only gives us suffering and unhappiness.

When nothing is at stake, everything's a waste.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

If you wish to feel proud of your achievements, start with, achieving what once you thought as impossible.

Understand that you are ready to do the biggest things your soul came here to do. You don’t need to lose weight, get another degree, renovate your house, or have the perfect marriage before you can start achieving.

A strong man will not continue to be strong but what he uses his strength for may remain for decades.

Any accomplishment achieved through selfishness ultimately accomplishes the destruction of the one who did the accomplishing. And while that’s most certainly an accomplishment, it’s one that I don’t have any interest in.

Do not be scared to dream. Every big achievement began as a dream.

For the ambitious among us, once we reach our goal we soon formulate another to pursue. This is the hedonic treadmill. We continuously raise the bar for what we want or feel we need in order to be happy - and the hedonic treadmill spins faster with ambition. In other words, the downside to being ambitious is a constant sense of dissatisfaction with our achievements.