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For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.Achievement
Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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Bailey, David
1938 British Photographer
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
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Barrie, Sir James M.
1860-1937 British Playwright
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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Bennett, Thomas A.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
It s no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
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Desai, Morarji
1896-18 Indian Statesman Prime Minister
Somehow I can t believe that there are any heights that can t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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Disney, Walt
1901-1966 American Artist Film Producer
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
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Ellis, Havelock
1859-1939 British Psychologist
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Fabricius, George
1678-1707 Irish Dramatist
The only way around is through.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Gogh, Vincent Van
1853-1890 Dutch Painter
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
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Gouthey, A. P.
We will either find a way, or make one.
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Hannibal
BC 247-182 Carthaginian General Statesman
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
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Hansen, Mark Victor
American Motivational Speaker Author
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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Hayes, Helen
1900-1993 American Actress
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. 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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Heatter, Gabriel
1890 American Journalist
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
One must marry one s feelings to one s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one s life.
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Hilsum, Etty
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
I hope that 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, and 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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Hoppe, C.
God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
I want to put a ding in the universe.
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Jobs, Steve
1955 American Businessman Founder of Apple Computers
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.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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Jowett, Benjamin
1817-1893 British Scholar
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
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Jung, Carl
1875-1961 Swiss Psychiatrist
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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Kettering, Charles F.
1876-1958 American Engineer Inventor
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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Kinder, Jack
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Kuralt, Charles
American TV Commentator
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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La Fontaine, Jean De
1621-1695 French Poet
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
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Lakein, Alan
American Time Management Expert Author Trainer
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
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Lamartine, Alphonse De
1790-1869 French Poet Statesman Historian
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Mann, Golo
1909 German Historian Son of Thomas Mann
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Mcclellan, Foster C.
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Montapert, Alfred A.
American Author
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
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Morrow, Dwight Whitney
1873-1931 American Lawyer Banker diplomat
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
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O'Keeffe, Georgia
American painter
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Orwell, George
1903-1950 British Author Animal Farm
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Ovid
BC 43-18 AD Roman Poet
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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Pancoast, Mal
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Peale, Norman Vincent
1898-1993 American Christian Reformed Pastor Speaker Author
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
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Phaedrus
c1 Macedonian Inventor and Writer
I am always doing things I can t do, that s how I get to do them.
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Picasso, Pablo
1881-1973 Spanish Artist
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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Plutarch
46-120 AD Greek Essayist Biographer
The journey is the reward.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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Rank, Otto
1884-1939 Vienna-born Psychoanalyst
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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Reading, Lady Stella
The truth of the matter is that there s nothing you can t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.
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Robbins, Anthony
1960 American Author Speaker Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
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Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt
1861-1933 American Poet Sister of Theodore Roosevelt
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
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Robinson, Eddie
College Football Coach
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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Salk, Dr. Jonas
1914-1995 Virologist Discovered The First Vaccine Against Poliomyelitis
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
Where there is a will there is a way. is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
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Smiles, Samuel
1812-1904 Scottish Author
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
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Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
1834-1892 British Baptist Preacher
It s not the having, it s the getting.
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Taylor, Elizabeth
1932 British-born American Actress
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Tennyson, Lord Alfred
1809-1892 British Poet
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it s when you ve had everything to do, and you ve done it.
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Thatcher, Margaret
1925 British Stateswoman Prime Minister (1979-90)
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
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Tracy, Brian
American Trainer Speaker Author Businessman
If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.
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Unknown, Source
Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest.
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Unknown, Source
The fellow who does things that count, doesn t usually stop to count them.
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Unknown, Source
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn t pronounce my R s. I wasn t a beauty.
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Walters, Barbara
1931 American TV Personality
The sports page records people s accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man s failures.
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Warren, Earl
1891-1974 American Politician Judge
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn t working.
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Weaver, Dennis
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man s name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,
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Weil, Simone
1910-1943 French Philosopher Mystic
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Welles, Orson
1915-1985 American Film Maker
For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
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Winthrop, John
1588-1649 Puritan First Governor of Massachusetts
Don t mistake activity for achievement.
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Wooden, John
1910 American Basketball Coach
Never mistake activity for achievement.
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Wooden, John
1910 American Basketball Coach
Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.
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Woodruff, Julia
It s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
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Ziglar, Zig
American Sales Trainer Author Motivational Speaker