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Births

• 1949 - Boris Johnson
• 1882 - Clarence Stein
• 1904 - Lester Cole
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Deaths

• 1966 - Ed Wynn
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• Its easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Achievement

• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

  Irving Babbitt

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Impressive, American

• But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Achievement, Luck

  Tags in Concrete, Survival

• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Topics in Achievement

• Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

  Unknown

  Topics in Achievement, Success

  Tags in Mia Hamm

• Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Persistence

• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Achievement, Progress, Success

  Tags in Change/Growth

• In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Topics in Achievement, History

  Tags in Being A Woman

• Everything we do today; can and will be done better, faster, and smarter in the time ahead.

  Calum Ross

  Topics in Achievement

• 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.

  Mark Barnes

  Topics in Achievement

• Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Topics in Achievement

• It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Achievement

• It’s people like that who make you realize how little you’ve accomplished

  Roberto Assagioli

  Topics in Achievement

• The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Topics in Achievement

• I’d like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Topics in Achievement

• What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point

  Orison Swett Marden

  Topics in Achievement

• Getting to the top isn’t bad, and it’s probably best done as an afterthought.

  Anne Wilson Schaef

  Topics in Achievement

• You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

  David Ogilvy

  Topics in Achievement

• If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

  Logan Clendening

  Topics in Achievement

• Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Topics in Achievement