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“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”

Writing Difficult Rooms Quiet Achievement Cooking Constant Details Knees Kitchen Leisure Toms Uncles Paragraph Housework Cabins Uncle Tom Quiet Room

Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement”

Knows Way Self Done Feelings Jobs Doubt Achievement Instruments Constant Receiving Communion Communion With God

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.”

Humility Achievement Constant Forgetfulness

Author:John Climacus

“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”

Success Struggle Battle Achievement Constant Surroundings Great Achievement Constant Struggle

Book:An Iron Will

Source: An Iron Will

“Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.”

Faces Fate Achievement Constant Triumph Torture Passive Explicit Forbearance

Book:Stories of a lifetime

Source: Stories of a lifetime

“The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”

Inspirational Literature Growth Achievement Appreciate Constant Strive Worthy Approval Splendid

Author:Denis Waitley

“Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.”

Way Community Clear Society Duty Achievement Conscience Overcoming Constant Loyalty Devotion Usefulness Discouragement Clear Conscience

Author:Grover Cleveland

“Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.”

Persons Real Joy Wealth Compassion Achievement Filled Constant Buddhist Generosity Generous Uncertain Richness Enviromental Being Generous

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.”

World Shows Success Sides Silence Enemy Achievement Constant Merit Surround Defects

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.”

People Heart Self Lying Process Levels Struggle Higher Achievement Self Improvement Adversity Constant Improvement Climbs Higher Level Inertia Constant Struggle Repeated Failure

Book:Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

Source: Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

“[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.”

“We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.”

Feelings Political Culture Natural Leadership Democracy Missing Achievement Constant Debate Fragile Imperfect Craving Malaise Political Culture

Author:Tim Soutphommasane

“You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.”

Achieve Events Masters Becoming Balance Demand Achievement Flow Harmony Constant Slave Inner Peace Planning Time Management Organize

Author:Brian Tracy