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"No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality."
"We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain."
"The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast."
"The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations."
"The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover."
"Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live."
"Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement."
"He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated."
"The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything."
"The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving."
"Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work."
"Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything."
"Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts"
"The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first."
"Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
"Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire."
"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it."
"It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement."
"It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat."
"Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement."
