~ Ability and Achievement Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done Has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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[highlight-text]I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

Justice Arthur Goldberg

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[highlight-text]'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the answer given without hesitation.

John Buchan

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[highlight-text]When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

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[highlight-text]Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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[highlight-text]Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Dag Hammarskjold

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[highlight-text]The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

Bertrand Russell

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[highlight-text]Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

WW. Ziege

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[highlight-text]What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

H. P. Liddon

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[highlight-text]If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

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[highlight-text]There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.

Louis Dudek

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[highlight-text]Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.

Epictetus

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[highlight-text]Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country and thereby serve his children his neighbours his fellow men and the cause of freedom.

David Lilienthal

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[highlight-text]There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles. (On aristocracy)

David Lloyd George

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[highlight-text]You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes