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Achievement
Personal relationships are
the fertile soil from which all
advancement, all success, all
achievement in real life grows.
?Ben Stein
For what is the best choice, for
each individual is the highest it
is possible for him to achieve.
?Aristotle
I feel that the greatest reward for
doing is the opportunity to do more.
?Jonas Salk
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.
?Morarji Desai
What we don't need to know for achievement,
we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how
things work is the basis for appreciation,
and is thus a source of civilized delight.
?William Safire
There is nothing that war has ever achieved
we could not better achieve without it.
?Havelock Ellis
Happiness does not come from doing
easy work but from the afterglow of
satisfaction that comes after the achievement
of a difficult task that demanded our best.
?Theodore Isaac Rubin
Death comes to all but great
achievements build a monument which
shall endure until the sun grows cold.
?George Fabricius
Freedom is an internal achievement
rather than an external adjustment.
?Adam Clayton Powell
Great things are not done by impulse, but
by a series of small things brought together.
?Vincent Van Gogh
Many times I wondered whether my
achievement was worth the loneliness
I experienced, but now
I realize the price was small.
?Gordon Parks
The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement.
?Harry Lauder
If life were measured by accomplishments,
most of us would die in infancy.
?A. P. Gouthey
Achievement is not always success,
while reputed failure often is. It is honest
endeavor, persistent effort to do the best
possible under any and all circumstances.
?Orison Swett Marden
To get enough to eat was regarded as an
achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
?Brendan Behan
The best job goes to the person who can
get it done without passing
the buck or coming back with excuses.
?Napoleon Hill
The achievements which society rewards are
won at the cost of diminution of personality
?Carl Jung
There is no great achievement that is not
the result of patient working and waiting.
?J. G. Holland
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
?Charles F. Kettering
Cherish your visions and your dreams,
as they are the children of your soul,
the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
?Napoleon Hill
High achievement always takes place
in the framework of high expectation.
?Jack Kinder
There is no simplistic approach to
worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
?William Hastie
Let us, then, be up and doing, with
a heart for any fate; still achieving,
still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you fear making anyone mad, then you
ultimately probe for the lowest common
denominator of human achievement.
?Jimmy Carter
Empty pockets never held anyone back.
Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
?Norman Vincent Peale
An achievement is a bondage. It
obliges one to a higher achievement.
?Albert Camus
So much to do, so little
done, such things to be.
?Lord Alfred Tennyson
It is very easy to overestimate the
importance of our own achievements
in comparison with what we owe others.
?Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The sports page records people's
accomplishments, the front page usually
records nothing, but man's failures.
?Earl Warren
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling
are necessary in any kind of superior achievement:
The arts cannot exist without them.
?Louise A. Bogan
