"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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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."

Ovid on achievement
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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

O'Keeffe, Georgia 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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"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

Kinder, Jack on achievement
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"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

Kettering, Charles F. on achievement
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel 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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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell 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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"Where there is a will there is a way. is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself."

Smiles, Samuel on achievement
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"Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on moderation   

"Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on moderation   

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

Kissinger, Henry on moderation   

"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."

Horace on moderation   

"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."

Cicero, Marcus T. on moderation
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"Tell the world who you are but don’t use a word."

Gil, Fausto 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"

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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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"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."

Confucius on achievement
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"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."

Bennett, Thomas A. on achievement
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"Never 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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"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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"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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"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

Tracy, Brian on achievement
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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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"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

Shakespeare, William on losers and losing
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"The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away"

Shakespeare, William on cheerfulness   

"For nothing can seem foul to those that win."

Shakespeare, William on cheating   

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the heart. Therefore, is winged cupid painted blind."

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"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."

Shakespeare, William on drama and theatre   

""Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God." "

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"O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority; Most ingorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence,-like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep;"

Shakespeare, William on ignorance
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"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Shakespeare, William on ethics
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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain"

Shakespeare, William on words