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  • It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. - Winston Churchill


  • Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. - Thomas A Bennett


  • Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. - Mark Victor Hansen


  • We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. - David Bailey


  • My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. - Helen Hayes


  • I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. - Barbara Walters


  • The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. - Earl Warren


  • When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, - Simone Weil


  • In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! - Orson Welles


  • Don't mistake activity for achievement. - John Wooden


  • Never mistake activity for achievement. - John Wooden


  • It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude. - Zig Ziglar


  • Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. - Sir James M Barrie


  • The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. - Benjamin Jowett


  • The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. - Alfred A Montapert


  • Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. - Orison Swett Marden


  • 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


  • Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. - Georg C Lichtenberg



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