"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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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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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

Kettering, Charles F. 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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"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day."

Lakein, Alan on achievement
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Lamartine, Alphonse De 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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"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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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on achievement
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."

Gouthey, A. P. on achievement
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore."

Arnold, Matthew on hope
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"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

Bacon, Francis on hope
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"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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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on achievement
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"Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

Fabricius, George on achievement
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on achievement
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on achievement
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"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

Chesterfield, Lord on advice
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