“Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.” WorldWellsMadeSaidBookDoneMotivationalLife IsPurposeNamesHoursPleasureEffortRecordsWrittenAchievementPagesNobleTrialsAll TimeTitlesGenerousIntroductionLife Is LikeDiscouragementWell DoneBook Of LifeWork Well DoneLife Is Like A Book Author:Grenville Kleiser
“The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.” DesirePleasureAchievementAppreciation Author:Edgar Alwin Payne
“The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.” MenYearsDoeRealAmericaPurposePleasureWeekHe ManAchievementIncreaseAspirationLeisureImpressedUsefulnessRecreationSpursMiningTrue Purpose Author:B. C. Forbes
“Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting individual domestic pleasure and social enjoyment in conversation, but what are they in comparison with the grand stimulation of independence and self- reliance, of the capability of contributing to the comfort and happiness of those whom they love as their own souls?” MayIdeasSoulSelfUsePurposeGirlIndividualSocialPleasureStudyComfortConversationAchievementIndependencePracticalsEnjoymentComparisonCapabilitySelf RelianceReliancePromotingContributingStimulationComfort And Happiness Author:Sarah Moore Grimke
“I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.” UsePastMemoriesPleasureAchievementHarmonySupremeWanderWitnessGatheringInnateFoldsSuspended Book:Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951 Source: Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951
“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.” IfsPleasureToo MuchAirAchievementPollutionFresh AirPleasures Of LifeAir Pollution Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a recognized duty, to listen patiently to what might be said to him upon any subject under consideration....Neither, I need scarcely say, was he in the habit of talking, much less boasting, of his own achievements.” MenNeedsWellsSaidMightPleasureTalkingGreaterSubjectsDutyHabitAchievementConsiderationBoastConceitTalking Much Author:Martin Van Buren
“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.” LifeMotivationalWishPleasureStepsSeeingHigherAchievementDifficultyPassingPassings Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler
“I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of ears. This does not mean I have not found some of them too daunting to read all the way through, but it would seem there ought to be some ambition on the writer's part to create a work that would be "a read" all the way through. If not, all the pleasure belongs to the maker, and that in itself is something, an achievement.” ThinkingMeanIndividualChancePleasureAchievementAmbition Author:C.D. Wright
“If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.” IfsWorldFeelsSelfOpportunityChallengesPleasureAchieveSelf EsteemInspirePrideConfidenceAchievementEsteemSecureEmpoweringRealisticOpportunities And Challenges Author:Nathaniel Branden
“Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path. Enjoy the flowers that are there for your pleasure. Tune in to the sunrise, the little children, the laughter, the rain, and the birds. Drink it all in... there is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.” WayChildrenLittlesEnjoyTermPleasurePathFlowerDrinkAchievementLaughterBirdRainAppreciateOptimismWake UpEncountersTunesSunriseEvaluate Author:Wayne Dyer
“There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.” MenWorldHandsChancePleasureHe ManAchievementTownsWoodsGladWelcomeDesertSandGoodsFarmersAisleTurned DownHay Author:Walt Whitman
“The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without commitment.” SelfTodaySexWealthPleasureResponsibilityStruggleSelf EsteemAchievementCommitmentConsequenceEsteemIdols Author:Jonathan Sacks