"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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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."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

Jowett, Benjamin on achievement
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"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."

Montapert, Alfred A. on achievement
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Mcclellan, Foster C. on achievement
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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."

Mann, Golo on achievement
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"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on achievement
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"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on achievement
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."

La Fontaine, Jean De on achievement
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

Kuralt, Charles on achievement
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"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

Kinder, Jack on achievement
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"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

Kettering, Charles F. on achievement
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"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality"

Jung, Carl on achievement
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"We live in deeds

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.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world."

Bailey, Philip James on achievement
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