Achievement Quotes - Page 3

• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

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

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  1978 Address to the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, 9 Nov.

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• For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Confidence, Men

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• Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• 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.

  Wilson Mizner

  Desire, Looks, Done

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

  Maya Angelou

  "Breaking the Glass Ceiling" by Barbara R. Arnwine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2010.

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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.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Goal

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• Big thinking precedes great achievement.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”

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• Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

  Saul Bellow

  Kindness, Men, Vacuums

  SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

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• There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

  William H. Hastie

  Inspiration, Affair, Worthwhile

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• Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

  Gino Bartali

  Sports, Soul, Action

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• The only failure is not trying.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Trying

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• 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.

  Helen Hayes

  Life, Years, Games

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• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Time

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.213, Penguin

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• Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

  George Santayana

  Creative, Action, Quiet

  "10 Quotes: Inspire and Motivate" by Sura College of Competition, p. 28, August 1, 2004.

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• The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

  Alfred Adler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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• The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

  Candace Bushnell

  Men, Important, Transformation

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• Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

  Robert Vaughn

  Believe, Men, Form

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• Your greatest achievement is to love me.

  Prince Charles

  Greatest Achievement

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Hands, People, Independence

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• One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.

  Takeda Shingen

  Loyalty, Military, Mean

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• Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

  Brian Tracy

  Excellence, Ongoing, Development

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• Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

  Brian Tracy

  Lessons, Difficulty, Great Achievement

  Twitter post from Mar 23, 2014

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