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It is
never too late
to be what you
might have been.
George
Eliot |
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If
you achieve success, you will get applause, and if
you
get applause,
you will hear it. My advice to you
concerning applause is this:
Enjoy it but never
quite believe it.
Robert
Montgomery
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All
human beings have failings, all human beings have needs
and temptations
and stresses. Men and women who live
together through long years
get to know one another's
failings; but they also come to know what
is worthy of
respect and admiration in those they live with and in
themselves. If in the end one can say, "This person used to the limit the powers that God
granted
him or her; this person was
worthy of love and respect and of the
sacrifices of many
people, made in order that he or she might achieve what
this person deemed to be his
or her task," then that life
has been
lived well and there are no regrets.
Eleanor
Roosevelt
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It's
important to give yourself a gold star. Recognizing your
achievements--
big and small--is an important part of honoring who you are.
Gold stars have
the powerful effect of undermining and dethroning all the critical
stuff
you've heard about yourself.
Leslie
Levine
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Be of good cheer.
Do not think of today's
failures, but of the success
that may come tomorrow. You
have set yourselves a difficult task,
but you will
succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in
overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make
to
attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller |
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Neither great
nor good things were ever attained without loss
and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint
with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head
shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
William Penn
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The greatest works are
done by the ones. The hundreds do not
often do much--the
companies never; it is the units--the single
individuals,
that are the power and the might. Individual effort
is,
after all, the grand thing.
Charles Haddon
Spurgeon
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There are two kinds of
success. One is
the very rare kind that comes
to the
person who has the power to do what no
one else has the power to
do. That is genius.
But the average person who wins what we
call success
is not a genius. That person is
a man or woman who has merely
the ordinary
qualities that they share with their fellows,
but who has developed those
ordinary qualities
to a more
than ordinary degree.
Theodore
Roosevelt
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Haunted from my early
youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life,
I was
aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no
harm," I ought
to be testing myself daily, and
asking myself what I am really achieving.
Margot
Asquith
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Success is
to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life
as by the obstacles which one has overcome
while trying to succeed.
Booker T.
Washington
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measure of success is not whether you have a tough
problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem
you had last year.
John
Foster Dulles
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Four steps to achievement:
Plan purposefully.
Prepare prayerfully.
Proceed positively.
Pursue persistently.
William A. Ward |
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied person,
and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison |

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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, and that's nice, too, but not as
important or satisfying."
Always aim for achievement
and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
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I don't know the key to success, but the
key
to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill
Cosby
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Quality is never an
accident; it is always the result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful
execution; it represents
the wise choice of many
alternatives, the cumulative experience of
many masters
of craftsmanship.
Quality also marks the search for an ideal after
necessity has
been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.
Willa A. Foster
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Nothing
in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will
not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals
with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost
a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of
educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent.
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People who have attained things worth having in this world
have
worked while others idled, have persevered when others
gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the
valuable habits
of self-denial, industry, and singleness
of purpose. As a result,
they enjoy later in life the
success so often
erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser |
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Life should be enjoyable; too often we think it's
about achievement.
The truth is that making life enjoyable
is an achievement in itself.
unattributed
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Every
great achievement is
the story of a flaming heart.
Harry
Truman |
We
don't know who we are
until we see what we can do.
Martha
Grimes |
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No matter
what accomplishments you achieve,
somebody helps you.
Althea Gibson |
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"Where
there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying.
The person
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.
Samuel
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Stressing the practice of living purposefully as
essential to fully realized
self-esteem is not
equivalent to measuring
an individual’s worth by his
or her external achievements.
We admire achievements—in ourselves
and others—and it is
natural and appropriate for us
to do so.
But that is
not the same thing as saying that our achievements
are the measure
or grounds of our self-esteem.
The root of our self-esteem is not
our achievements but those
internally generated practices that,
among other things, make it
possible for us to achieve.
Nathaniel Branden |
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If one advances
confidently in the
direction of one's dreams, and
endeavors to live the life one has
imagined, one will meet with a
success unexpected in
common hours.
Henry David Thoreau |
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The
greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent
or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above
a certain level, are outside our self-concept--our image of who we
are and what is appropriate to us.
Nathaniel
Branden
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