"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on achievement
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."

Jobs, Steve 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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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"The ancestor of every action is thought."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Real action is in silent moments."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia."

Carrel, Alexis on action
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"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

Disney, Walt on achievement
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"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."

Desai, Morarji 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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"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese 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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"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 truth shall set you free."

Bible on truth
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."

Unknown, Source on ability
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"They are able because they think they are able."

Virgil on ability
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"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."

Washington, Booker T. on ability
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Wooden, John on ability
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"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

Ziglar, Zig on ability
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

Ball, Lucille on ability
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on ability
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens."

Ruckett on death
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on absence
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ability
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on ability
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"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."

Ford, Henry on ability
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"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

Gibbon, Edward on ability
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"Never find fault with the absent."

Proverb on absence
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"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her."

Rowland, Helen on absence
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"A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

Johnson, Samuel on abuse
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