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“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.”

“Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.”

Ifs Form Desire Values Existence Expression Achievement Highest Driven Our Love Motor

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”

Ifs Care Can Do Amount Limits Achievement Don't Care Credit Accomplishment Rewards And Recognition

Author:Ronald Reagan

“There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.”

People Ifs World Should Believe Opportunity Individual I Believe Goal Lines Levels Emotional Equal Achievement Machines Errors Engineers Aspire Equal Opportunity

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.”

Ifs Thinking Space Mankind Produce Achievement Impressed Greatest Achievement

Author:Sharon Shinn

“Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.”

Ifs Men World Choices Existence Vision Power Achieve Building Achievement Chaos Every Man Denial Spheres Irrational Worldview Grind Escaping Irrationality Power Of Choice Imaging Abdication

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.”

Ifs Way Humans Kind Mean Book Universe Courses Enjoy Ability Existence Talent Lessons Lucky Achievement Appreciate Privilege Multitudes Living Things

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”

Ifs Has Beens Two Able Life Is Values Found Fame Achievement Sake Two Things Lasting I Have Learned Priceless Loving Life

Book:Rama II

Source: Rama II

“It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mind Dream Life Is Building Achievement Appreciate Treasure Destination Pursued Incomplete Frame Of Mind Building Relationships

Author:Janette Rallison

“Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.”

Ifs Knows Beautiful Self Esteem Achievement Anorexia

Author:Germaine Greer

“Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.”

Ifs Firsts School Gone Lessons Achievement Sail Yale Semester

Author:Benjamin Carson

“One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.”

People Ifs Should Has Beens Religion Religious Impossible Atheism Achievement Intelligent Accomplishment Retreat Great Achievement

Book:Facing Up

Source: Facing Up

“If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job. But here's an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.”

Ifs Humans Looks May Has Beens Jobs Universe Wish Human Beings Records Fate Worst Design Achievement Lonely Supreme Chosen Cosmos Nightmare Providence Organisms Worst Nightmares

Author:Bill Bryson

“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Soul Motivational Politics Causes Failing Worst Cold Victory Achievement Strive Defeat Worthy Credit Devotion Triumph Daring Arena Daring Greatly Worthy Causes

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)”

Source: Christianity and Liberalism

“And that's a life, isn't it? Some achievements and some disappointments. It's been interesting to me, though I wouldn't complain or be amazed if others found it less so. Maybe, in a way, Adrian knew what he was doing. Not that I would have missed my own life for anything, you understand. [pp.60-61]”

Ifs Way Found My Own Interesting Achievement Disappointment Complaining Amazed My Own Life

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Real Success Results Learning Achievement Experience Handle Denial Outcomes Rejection Refusal Betterment Real Success

Author:Tony Robbins

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”

People Ifs Children Said Hands Age Kings Achievement Elders Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Things Fall Apart Important

Author:Chinua Achebe

“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”

Ifs Inspirational Humans Funny Political Politics Fear Common Honor Achievement Mad Graduation Lowest Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Jimmy Carter

“If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.”

Ifs Needs Moments Difficult Existence Consciousness Our Lives Achievement Hope To Live

Book:The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Desire Process Magic Creation Elements Achievement Instruments Foretelling

Book:The Professor's House

Source: The Professor's House

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”

Ifs Thinking Action Positive Positive Thinking Achievement Expectations Disaster Secure Positively Demise Think Positive Think Positively Think Positive Be Positive Positive Thinking In Life

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.”

Ifs Want Wells Matter Use Motivational Motivation Time Ability Learning Succeed Achievement Time Management

Book:Iacocca: An Autobiography

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.”

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

Ifs Inspirational May Ends Wisdom Past Success Change Leadership Focus Achieve Changed Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Succeed Achievement Yoga Uplifting Life Changing Taoism Where You Are Success In Life Encouraging Tao Life And Love Key To Success Better Life Your Future Changing Your Life Making Changes Road To Success Recipe For Success My Future Headings Wise Man Once Said Don't Change Right Direction Change Management Changing Your Mind Tao Te Ching Never Give Up On Something Life Has Changed Change Your Attitude Change And Growth Accepting Change Creating Change Accepting Life Business Change Changing Attitude Managing Change Motivation And Change Mind Changing Darkness Within Clear Water Path To Success Life And Change Change Growth Inspiring Change Life Direction Knowing Others Some People Never Change Action And Change Leadership And Change People Never Change Dozing Growing Business Courageous Decisions

Author:Laozi

“If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.”

Ifs World Feels Self Opportunity Challenges Pleasure Achieve Self Esteem Inspire Pride Confidence Achievement Esteem Secure Empowering Realistic Opportunities And Challenges

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.”

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.”

Ifs Culture Peace Ability Common Our Lives Society Achieve Masters Achievement Diversity Blessed Locals Brotherhood Goodwill Unity In Diversity Human Diversity

Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.”

“If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.”

People Ifs Life Stars Effort Moon Achievement Clever Moon And Stars

Author:Confucius

“I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants”

Source: See You at the Top

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve”

“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”

“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”

Ifs Trying Running Winning Leadership Loss Race Achievement Horse Encouragement Faster Weight Loss Accord Spirited

Author:Ovid

“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”

Ifs Goal Wealth Money Business Rich Achieve Achievement Greed Avarice Being Rich Become Rich

Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.”

“With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.”

“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.”

“If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.”

Ifs Giving Success Purpose Focus Achievement Determination Fundamentals Intention Perseverance Obstacles

Author:Ralph Marston

“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”

Ifs World Forget Poor Vision Poverty Achievement Public Service Great Achievement Enriching Errands Great Vision Vision Of Life Why We Are Here Leadership Vision Leadership And Vision Spiritual Vision World Vision

Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.”

Ifs Mean Science Goal Religious Alive Achievement Longing Deeds Reaching Translate

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Success Poor Achievement Close Friends

Author:Tom Baker

“What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.”

Ifs Success Meditation Personality Achievement

Author:Saint Augustine

“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.”

“To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.”

Ifs Stills Success Media Degrees Achievement Defeat Quests Charisma Prospects Likelihood Demeanor Acclaim

Author:John Donne

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