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• If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

  John Wooden

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Determination

• To be free is to have achieved your life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Topics in Achievement, Life

  Tags in Freedom

• Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people

  Nido Qubein

  Topics in Achievement

• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Topics in Achievement, Expectations, Inspirational, Motivational

  Tags in Motivating, Danger

• People ask me if I could fly, I said, yeah…. for a little while.

  Michael Jordan

  Topics in Achievement

• Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  Topics in Achievement

• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Achievement, Fear

  Tags in Change/Growth

• When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Hope

• Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Topics in Achievement, Children, Power, Success

  Tags in Women

• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Force, Peace

• Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Achievement, Success

  Tags in Positive Thinking

• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Achievement, Success

  Tags in Positive Thinking, Determination

• At the outstart of discussions of women’s intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Feminism, Women

• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Achievement, Effort, Failure, Inspirational, Mistake, Politics, Sacrifice, Success, Work

  Tags in Winning, Integrity/Individuality, Duty, Criticism

• My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

  Helen Rowland

  Topics in Achievement, Success, Work

• There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation — veneer isn’t worth anything.

  George Washington Carver

  Topics in Achievement, Life, Success, Work