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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"
"You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved."
"You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand"
"Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it."
"Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create."
"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."
"There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art."
"It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements."
"Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim."
"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
"Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge."
"We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated."
"You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds."
"The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement."
"Simplicity is the final achievement."
"Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition."
"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."
"There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance."
"Great things have small beginnings."
"It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all."
