"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

Rank, Otto on achievement
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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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."

Confucius on achievement
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"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."

Desai, Morarji on achievement
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"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."

Bergson, Henri L. on action
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

Berger, Sally on action
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"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

Batt, Al on action
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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on action
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle on action
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"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts."

Arendt, Hannah on action   

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

Disney, Walt on achievement
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"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on achievement
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"Tell the world who you are but don’t use a word."

Gil, Fausto on achievement
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

Gautier, Theophile on admiration
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"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

Ball, Lucille on ability
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."

Froude, James A. on ability
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on ability
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"Others have done it before me. I can, too."

Faunce, Corporal John on ability
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"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

Faulkner, William on ability
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't."

Chambers, Oswald on ability
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"Just do what you do best."

Auerbach, Red on ability
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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."

Marden, Orison Swett on ability
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"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on abundance
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