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"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."
"I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement."
"One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
"The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything."
"As soon as your dream becomes stronger than your doubts & fears, your dream begins to manifest."
"A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia."
"Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end."
"Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God."
"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."
"I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement."
"Achievement is talent plus preparation"
"Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it."
"There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful."
"The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves."
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
"The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are."
"The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement."
"Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult."
