Achieving Goals After Hard Work Quotes & Sayings

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. — Pat Metheny

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. — Jonathan Haidt

May you always have A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel so nothing can harm you. An Irish Blessing — Julie Garwood

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour. — Linus Torvalds

There is thin line between fun and disrespect to a language. Poking once or twice is fun but excess is disrespect. — Pankaj Gupta

But maybe, she told herself, the squirrels had felt themselves falling and leaped to safety. The key was to know when you were falling. — Tom Franklin

It's a strange world"
"The strangest — Stephenie Meyer

Growth is there for everybody, but it is not everybody who 'grows'! So many people grow to stop growing, but aging never stops for mankind until we come to the ebb of our days! Grow in something as you grow and leave something unique! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The whole right side of his face was smashed in, concave forehead and crushed cheekbone and one eye bugging precariously from a broken socket. He was purplish-black, and dirty white: Maggots seethed from every pore and crawled across him in excited wriggly piles, blowflies waving and blooming and wilting, the bits of bone they'd scraped clean glinting like tiny mosaic tiles. Scraps of jeans and a leather jacket clung to the sticky seething mess of his flesh. He was big, big shouldered, a good foot taller; chit-chitter, he went, even standing still. — Joan Frances Turner

I just love my age. I really do. I feel like once I hit 40, I felt free to be me. — Anne Alexander

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense. — Eartha Kitt

It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker. — Trevanian