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• There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.

  Louis Dudek

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Destiny, Choice

• If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.

  Mia Hamm

  Topics in Achievement, Love

  Tags in Enthusiasm, Passion

• It’s the whole, not the detail, that matters.

  Topics in Ability, Achievement, German Proverbs

• There is endless merit in a man’s knowing when to have done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

  Lucille Ball

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

  Tags in Philosophy

• It’s them that takes advantage that gets advantage i’ this world.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

  Epictetus

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

  Kin Hubbard

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

  Henry R. Luce

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• How many ‘coming men’ has one known? Where on earth do they all go to?

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

  Arthur J. Goldberg

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• 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.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles.

  David Lloyd George

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

  Elaine Morgan

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• The best is the enemy of the good.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Ability, Achievement