"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

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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"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

Bacon, Francis on life
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"A child miseducated is a child lost."

Kennedy, John F. on children
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von 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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"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."

Gouthey, A. P. on achievement
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"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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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"

Hoffer, Eric on achievement
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"One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."

Hilsum, Etty on achievement
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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Hill, Napoleon on achievement
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"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."

Heatter, Gabriel on achievement
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"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."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

Hansen, Mark Victor on achievement
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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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"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on imagination
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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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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."

Blake, William on eternity
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"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality."

Ballard, J. G. on fiction
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

Kerr, Jean on adversity
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"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work."

Nicklaus, Jack on confidence
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"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."

Havner, Vance on adversity
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"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

Dune, Frank Herbert on adversity
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."

Addison, Joseph on cheerfulness
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on power
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus on power
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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