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“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”

“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.”

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”