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“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.”

Action Born Achievement Possession Fulfillment Outcomes Contentment Fullness Inaction Alterations

Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.”

Causes Born Achievement Imperfect Repeated Failure

Book:The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method

“America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.”

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.”

Opportunity Born Chance Demand Equal Achievement Fairs Method Conviction Formulas Individualism Rooted Equal Opportunity

Book:American Individualism

Source: American Individualism

“You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.”

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

Ifs World Way Strong Born Results Break Sacrifice Broken Achievement Great Things Selfishness Small Things Great Achievement Great Sacrifice

Author:Napoleon Hill

“It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.”

Success Born Achievement Cynicism

Book:Monks are Monks: A Diagnostic Scherzo

Source: Monks are Monks: A Diagnostic Scherzo

“There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.”

Beautiful Born Beauty Achievement Personal Achievement

Author:Loretta Young

“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.”

Made Desire Born Natural Effort Learning Study Ignorance Achievement Advantage Painful Made It Realization Ease Acquire Possessed

Author:Confucius

“Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.”

Passion Born Powerful Greatness Achievement Flames Buried Sparks Within You Deep Within

Author:James Arthur Ray

“One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.”

“Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.”

Men Reason Growth Born Environment Masters Achievement

Book:Iqbal centenary papers

Source: Iqbal centenary papers

“I like naked women! I'm a bloke! I'm supposed to like them! We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one... When Man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!" He said: "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!"... The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms.”

Men Looks May Has Beens Said Stories Age Born Dark Struggle Fire Achievement Males Bottom Naked Hey Cooks Blokes Coupling

Author:Steven Moffat

“Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.”