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Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy a...

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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward s...

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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards ...

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child wash...

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The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...

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There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either...

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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...

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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was jus...

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Ambition can creep as well as soar.

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. Howe...

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it i...

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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep try...

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They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. Th...

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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is de...

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She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achiev...

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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything bett...

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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill o...

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The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing ...

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Geoff DyerOut of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...

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All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always kee...

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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the ...

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Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer....

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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out o...

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Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think y...

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already d...

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Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done H...

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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual ...

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There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and ...

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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...

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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human ...

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In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the...

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The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It i...

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Don't mistake activity with achievement.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the...

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over ...

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Malcolm GladwellOutliers: The Story of Success

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one ...

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Malcolm GladwellOutliers: The Story of Success

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are.  Our worldly power results from our p...

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Marianne WilliamsonA Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth ...

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[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...

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Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with you...

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, yo...

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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once ...

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If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire...

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The starting point of all achievement is desire.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she ...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not s...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achi...

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That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this p...

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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. Americ...

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The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ...

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What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no ...

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She felt vulnerable and alone and had a sense that a great opportunity was slipping through her fing...

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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exac...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only ...

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People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what ...

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I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' an...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Good is not good where better is expected.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostil...

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The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hosti...

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There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level....

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To ...

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.