Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
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Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them."
Haile Selassie
Emperor
"Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements."
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."
Denzel Washington
Actor, Director
"Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency."
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"The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties."
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"The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river."
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"I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane."
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"God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity."
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"The gull sees farthest who flies highest"
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"Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."
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"Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples."
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"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
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"...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success."
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"Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit."
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"To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized"
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"The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind."
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"Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this."
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"Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements."
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"Achievement has no color"
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"I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still"
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"You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved."
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"You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand"
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"Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it."
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"Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create."
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