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• To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Topics in Achievement, Humor

  Tags in Time

• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Achievement, Life, Success

  Tags in Pleasure, Wishes

• Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Marriage

• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Topics in Achievement, God, Vision

  Tags in Hell

• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Topics in Achievement, Progress

  Tags in Optimism, Courage

• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Satisfaction, Day

• Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Achievement, Beauty, Humanity, Knowledge, Truth

  Tags in Glory, Virtue

• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Topics in Achievement, Success

• Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

  Louise Bogan

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Innocence

• If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Paul Bryant

  Topics in Achievement

• It’s kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

  Karen Carpenter

  Topics in Achievement

• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  James Allen

  Topics in Achievement

• If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

  Zig Ziglar

  Topics in Achievement, Goal

  Tags in Actually, Reach, Mind

• You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

  Zig Ziglar

  Topics in Achievement, Dream, Life

  Tags in People, Help

• Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Achievement, Beauty

  Tags in Compassion, Living

• All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I’ve achieved since then is above and beyond.

  Shania Twain

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Doing Your Best

• If you give yourself to your task at once, you won’t have to do it twice

  David Seabury

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Doing Your Best

• Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it’s by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Gossip, Enemies, Excellence, Virtue

• Those who never have time do least

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Hope, Trying

• Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

  Eric Butterworth

  Topics in Achievement