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Letter "A" » Achievement
«Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.»
Author: Bruce Marton
| About:
Achievement,
Opportunity,
Success
| Keywords:
at hand, developed, distinction, most successful, presented
«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.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Achievement,
Day,
Satisfaction
| Keywords:
doing nothing, lounge, lounge around, lounging, supremely
«No one can motivate you to do anything. You motivate yourself, based on information you receive and how directly you can relate it to your own potential achievement.»
«Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.»
Author: Ross Perot
| About:
Achievement,
Success
| Keywords:
foot, Just a Game, last-minute, line, minute, one line, quit, The Game, touchdown, winning, yard
«Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it.»
Author: Stanley H Cath
| About:
Achievement,
Children,
Parents
| Keywords:
accomplishments, gaining, Janus-faced, Janus, middle age
«Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Achievement,
Success,
Unhappiness
| Keywords:
achieving, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, successes
«Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| About:
Achievement,
Hope,
Thought,
Trying
| Keywords:
accomplished, at all, hope, kept, seemed, trying
«Little strokes fell great oaks.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
fell, oaks, stroked, strokes, The Strokes
«Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
accomplishments, The Animals
«Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Achievement,
Greatness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
unawares
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