Achievement Quotes - Page 25

• What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Time, Community, Happens

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something.

  Zach Braff

  Blow, People, Holocaust

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• Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

  ""Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results" - Robin Sharma". Interview with Manoj Khatri, completewellbeing.com. Jan 12, 2016.

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• Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 26, 2012

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• Dream Big. Start small. Act now.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2017

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• Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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• Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Men, Goal

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• Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Motivational, Self, New Day

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• The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Curves, Battle

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• Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

  Peter McWilliams

  Love You, Joy, Energy

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• The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

  Albert Einstein

  Emotional, Feelings, Lovers

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• In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Greatness, Engineering, Victory

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Past, Greatness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Science

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• The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Thinking, Political, World

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• The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sports, Hero, Men

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.61, Vintage

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• The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Hero, Media, People

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• But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Men, Goal

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• We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

  H. G. Wells

  Hurt, War, Want

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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• A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Intelligence

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

  Pindar

  Success, Effort, Strive

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• I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Success, Attention, Knows

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.10

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