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Morton C. Blackwell
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| "Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one"s levels
of aspiration . . and expectation." | |
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Jack Nicklaus
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| "All achievement is the triumph of persistence." | |
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John Rennie
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| "All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your
personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know
exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you"re not clear about
this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely
what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if
you"ll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you"ll kick the
stuffing out of adversity every time." | |
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W. Clement Stone
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| "All significant achievement comes from daring, from experiment, from
the willingness to risk failure." | |
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Sydney J. Harris
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| "An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher
achievement." | |
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Albert Camus
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| "COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that
resembles, but do not equal, our own." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do
not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you." | |
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Stewart E. White
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| "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a
worthwhile achievement." | |
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Henry Ford
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| "Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all by
himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It?s our only joke.
Every woman knows that." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all
costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having
accomplished a tiresome labor is immense." | |
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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| "He that is overcautious will accomplish little." | |
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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| "He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in
another"s keeping." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high
expectation." | |
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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| "I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do
more." | |
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Dr. Jonas Edward Salk
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| "I hope my achievements in life shall be these: That I will have
fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which
mattered, that I will have given help to those who were in need ... That I
will have left the earth a better place for what I"ve done and who I"ve
been." | |
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C. Hoppe
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| "If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it." | |
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Ronnie Lott
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| "It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that
decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements
is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs
outside." | |
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I Ching
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| "It isn"t the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those
who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements
who are forever clogging things up." | |
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Charles Sorenson
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| "It isn"t the incompetent who destroys an organization. The
incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have
achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are
forever clogging things up." | |
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F.M. Young
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| "Life"s greatest achievement is the continual re-making of yourself
so that at last you know how to live." | |
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Winfred Rhodes
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| "Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the
sidelines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single
day"s work, an achievement for eternity." | |
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Gabriel Heatter
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| "My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She
said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked
hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others.
That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement
and forget about success." | |
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Helen Hays
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| "No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves
only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner
judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need
people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men"s
virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small
note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person"s real
character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important
battle." | |
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Plutarch
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| "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances." | |
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Bruce Barton
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| "One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what
one is trying to achieve." | |
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Paul Nitze
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| "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." | |
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Robert Francis Kennedy
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| "She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment
that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own
that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that
they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of
an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to
others." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence
thrust upon them.... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly
by doing what comes naturally and they don"t stumble into it in the course
of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of
purpose." | |
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John William Gardner
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| "Take care of those who work for you and you"ll float to greatness on
their achievements." | |
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H. S. M. Burns
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| "The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying
and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lie not in great
things but in little. The rarity of happiness among those who achieved
much is evidence that achievement is not in itself the assurance of a
happy life. The great, like the humble, may have to find their
satisfaction in the same plain things." | |
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Edgar A. Collard
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| "The awareness of the ambiguity of one"s highest achievements (as
well as one"s deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity." | |
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Paul Tillich
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| "The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be
doing and what they are doing are the same thing." | |
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Unknown
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| "The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially
useful." | |
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Alfred Adler
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| "The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best
that you can become." | |
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Harold Taylor
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| "The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful
outcome in mind." | |
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Norman Vincent Peale
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| "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 makes a small amount of heat." | |
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Napoleon Hill
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| "There are only two roads that lead to something like human
happiness. They are marked by the words ... love and achievement....
Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other
person happy.... The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but
in self-forgetting." | |
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Dr. Theodor Reik
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| "Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need
to project the end result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, thej
oy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into
view." | |
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Grace Speare
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| "We can spend our whole lives underachieving." | |
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Philip Crosby
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| "With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do
it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to
love one"s neighbor as one"s self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing,
you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about
yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you
must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on
the wing." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to
accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind... Not
all of a sudden, perhaps, not in one swift and sweeping act of
achievement.... But you can do it gradually?day by day and play by play?if
you want to do it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a
sufficiently long period of time." | |
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William E. Holler
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| "Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have
done and fools what they wish to do." | |
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