"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on sacrifice
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"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."

Livingstone, David on decisions
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"The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives."

Unknown, Source on goals   

"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."

Brown, Les on change
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"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."

Bellow, Saul on goodness
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"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

Fromme, Dr. Allan on work
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"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."

Robbins, Anthony on achievement
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"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."

Waitley, Denis on imagination
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"Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal."

Morrisey, George L. on planning   

"Failure is the path of least persistence"

Unknown, Source on failure
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away."

Unknown, Source on courage   

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."

Smith, Hannah Whitall on advice   

"Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?"

Robbins, Anthony on success
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"You were not born with the habit of brushing your teeth. With persistent action, over a period of time, you developed the habit. Now, I'll bet you would never consider going a week without brushing."

Scheele, Paul R. on habit   

"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."

Waitley, Denis on perseverance
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"Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up."

Unknown, Source on obstacles
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"My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories."

Borg, Bjorn on perseverance   

"There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do."

Marden, Orison Swett on perseverance   

"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heroes and heroism
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"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

Carlyle, Thomas on perseverance
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"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."

Waitley, Denis on effort
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

Eggleston, Edward on perseverance
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"Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself."

Unknown, Source on perseverance   

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

Hill, Napoleon on success
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Coolidge, Calvin on perseverance
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"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

Hill, Napoleon on perseverance
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"The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses."

Ward, William A. on winners and winning   

"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."

Wolff, Tobias on perseverance   

"Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these."

Riley, James Whitcomb on perseverance   

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

Carnegie, Dale on enthusiasm
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"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

Kaufman, Herbert on failure
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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!"

DeVos, Richard M. on perseverance
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"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach. "

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on uncategorised   

"There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back."

Marden, Orison Swett on failure   

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles."

Mandino, Og on enthusiasm   

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."

Seabury, David on enthusiasm   

"Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you."

Peale, Norman Vincent on enthusiasm   

"Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice."

Unknown, Source on enthusiasm