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"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public."
"The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece."
"Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent"
"I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven."
"It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value."
"Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous."
"There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement. I have found that to be absolutely true. My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up. I'm not afraid to fall on my face while I attempt new things."
"Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge."
"I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more."
"We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge."
"Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement."
"My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent."
"If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe."
"When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty."
"The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory."
"...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum"."
"Confidence is a resolute state of mind by which you believe nothing is impossible."
"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft."
"The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement."
"Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements"
