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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

• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

  David Ricardo

  Topics in Achievement
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  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

• I am easily satisfied with the very best.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Ability, Achievement, Humor

• The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest

  Irish Sayings

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Sweetest
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  Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Happiness
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  The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Mankind, Attain

• Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn’t know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

  Pete McCloskey

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Time

• Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Simplicity, Played

• I would say my greatest achievement in life right now – my greatest achievement period is – and I’m still trying to achieve it – is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

  Bo Jackson

  Topics in Achievement, Life

• The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.

  Paul Martin

  Topics in Achievement

• Now, 0 for 50 would be a historic achievement on any other team, but on the Cubs it is usually called September.

  Bernie Lincicome

  Topics in Achievement

• The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Topics in Achievement, Society

• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Mind
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  I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

  Ken Venturi

  Topics in Achievement, Success

  Tags in Else, Better

• Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Topics in Achievement, Work
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  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

• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Topics in Achievement, Vision

  Tags in Great, Often

• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

  George Takei

  Topics in Achievement, Country

  Tags in Glorious