"Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?"
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"Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself."
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"In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival."
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"Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for."
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"No great achievement is possible without persistent work."
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"Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless."
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"Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries."
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"Don't confuse honours with achievement."
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"Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together."
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"The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become."
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"Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat."
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"Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure."
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"In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement of others."
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"I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens."
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"Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience."
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"Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines."
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"Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing."
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"There is no success without hardship."
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"God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities."
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"Ideas are the beginning of all achievement."
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