"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."

Barrie, Sir James M. on achievement
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"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."

Salk, Dr. Jonas on achievement
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

Reading, Lady Stella on achievement
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"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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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on achievement
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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on achievement
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"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."

Phaedrus on achievement
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on achievement
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"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."

Pancoast, Mal on achievement
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"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit."

Morrow, Dwight Whitney 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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"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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"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on achievement
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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

Shaw, George Bernard on achievement
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"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."

Ziglar, Zig on achievement
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"Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done."

Woodruff, Julia on achievement
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"Never mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working."

Weaver, Dennis on achievement
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"The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures."

Warren, Earl on achievement
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"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."

Walters, Barbara on achievement   

"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?"

Thoreau, Henry David on achievement
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"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Thatcher, Margaret on achievement
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"So much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on achievement
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"It's not the having, it's the getting."

Taylor, Elizabeth on achievement
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"Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon 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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"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

Kettering, Charles F. 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 darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

Cowley, Abraham on hope
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"To the sick, while there is life there is hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on hope
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"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

Carver, George Washington on hope
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"Man partly is and wholly hopes to be."

Browning, Robert on hope
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