Achievement Quotes - Page 32

• Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.

  James Arthur Ray

  Powerful, Passion, Greatness

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• Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing

  Bart Conner

  Inspiration, Consistent, Enjoyment

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• His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.

  William Montgomery Watt

  Integrity, Character, Greatness

  "Mohammad at Mecca". Book by William Montgomery Watt, p. 52, 1953.

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• I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.

  William C. deMille

  Inspirational, Ability, Bites

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• The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

  Larry Flynt

  Inspirational, Success, Sacrifice

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• Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

  John W. Gardner

  Greatness, Discipline, People

  "Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?".

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• For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

  Wes Fesler

  Criticism, Devalue, Critics

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• I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Believe, Commitment, Lines

  Andrew Carnegie (2011). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.176, PublicAffairs

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• One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

  Brian Tracy

  Commitment, Leader, Quality

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• There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.

  Herbert York

  Science, Sound, Nuclear

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

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• We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can! Every great achievement in this world was first carefully thought out. Think-but to a purpose. Think constructively. Think as you read. Think as you listen. Think as you travel and your eyes reveal new situations. Think as you work daily at your desk, or in the field, or while strolling. Think to rise and improve your place in life. There can be no advancement or success without serious thought

  George Matthew Adams

  Inspiration, Eye, Thinking

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• Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Letting Go, Perfect

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• I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the consciousness of the Heavenly Man, is the goal for the human being, so for him, also, there may be a goal, and for him the achievement may be the development of God consciousness.

  Alice Bailey

  Men, Self, Goal

  Alice A Bailey (2010). “The Consciousness of the Atom”, p.36, Lucis Publishing Companies

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• When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

  Charles Kettering

  Feet, Boss, Research

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• There is no short cut to a place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Cutting, Short Cuts

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• Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.

  Mia Freedman

  Sports, Country, Teacher

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• Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if you just want a break. It is something to do with living things, not a static piece that you put there and look at but something that changes every day. You're committed to it. If you don't look after it, it dies on you. And if you do look after it, it will give you rewards - pleasure, and a feeling of achievement. There's a sense of responsibility developed in a garden.

  Hazel Hawke

  Responsibility, Garden, Giving

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• It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

  Eric Hoffer

  Heart, Men, Imagination

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• Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Doe, World, Proud

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• Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Effectiveness, Systematic

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done”, p.1, HarperCollins

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• The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Ideas, People

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most importantly, however, it is young people who will be inheriting the problems which have been left to them by the generations past.

  Marc Kielburger

  Past, Ideas, People

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• Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

  Will Durant

  Doe, Pale, Mankind

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Effort

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• Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in the past, creating an amazing backdrop for tourings and natives alive. Japan captures the imagination like no other. You never feel quite so far from home as you do in Japan, yet there are no other people on the planet that make you feel as comfortable.

  Corey Taylor

  Country, Home, Memorable

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