"Never confuse motion with action."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Confucius on action
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on action
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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"Education is not received. It is achieved."

Unknown, Source on education
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"All great achievements require time."

Schwartz, David J. on perseverance
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"Never mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on joy
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"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

Confucius on right and rightness
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"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

Confucius on war
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"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in."

Confucius on action
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"Read much, but not many books."

Franklin, Benjamin on books - reading   

"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

Franklin, Benjamin on books - reading
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"Drive your business, let not your business drive you."

Franklin, Benjamin on business
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"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in."

Franklin, Benjamin on wives
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"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

Franklin, Benjamin on conflict
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

Confucius on family
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius on family
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"The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."

Confucius on faults
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"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement."

Unknown, Source on peace
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

Delacroix, Eugene on perfection
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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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"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."

Stein, Ben on cooperation
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"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

Shakespeare, William on greatness
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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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"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."

Mencken, H. L. on writers and writing   

"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 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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"Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing."

Conner, Bart on chance
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"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

Nash, Ogden on science
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"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

Churchill, Winston on achievement
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"I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve."

Sergeevich, Ivan on love   

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

Hill, Napoleon on sacrifice
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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on happiness
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"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

Rockefeller, John D. on goals
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"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."

Stein, Ben on happiness
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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