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• Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Expression, Accomplishment

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• Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  Walter Legge

  Art, Democracy, Quality

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• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Wish

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.108

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• First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

  Barry Levinson

  Diners, Firsts, Chance

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Success, Work, Self Esteem

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• If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

  Alex Lifeson

  Would Be, Done, Term

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• Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wise, Yesterday, Mind

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• Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Dream, Men, Behinds

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.40, Paulist Press

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• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Life, Anniversary

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• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Money, Congratulations

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• Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Victory, Career Change

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Pain, Past

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can't get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Accomplishment, Goal

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 19, 2012

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• Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Dedication, Teamwork and Camaraderie: Tim Duncan" by Angela Guzman, www.beliefnet.com.

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• This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Wisdom, Real

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• Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2016

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• Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

  Plato

  Success, Failure, Men

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• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.

  Forbes Burnham

  Freedom, Failure, Independent

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• If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Giving Up, Tired

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 21, 2014

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• There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

  Ayn Rand

  Suicide, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.466, Penguin

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