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“If you believe, then you have already taken the first step towards your achievement.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Steps Taken Achievement First Steps If You Believe Already Taken

Author:Rickson Gracie

“COMMITMENT is the first step to every good thing I know, and the only step that matters when it comes to achievement. It inspires and attracts people, shows them you have conviction and goals, that you are focused and determined. And the commitment that is based on values will endure. Any time you make choices based on solid life values, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.”

“When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.”

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.”

Mind Firsts Problem Individual Steps Knowing Achievement Findings Solutions First Steps Personal Achievement

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.”

Heart Goal Steps Team Achievement Missions Team Goal

Book:Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation

Source: Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation

“We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?”

Source: Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951

“Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“I consider every step towards doing what you love an achievement.”

Steps Achievement What You Love Every Step Doing What You Love

Author:Irena A. Hoffman

“There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”

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Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism, solidarity and logic. And even domestically, President [Vladin]Putin is slowly, step-by-step, restoring many important Soviet achievements that were torpedoed by a nitwit, and one gangster - [Mikhail] Gorbachev and [Boris] Yeltsin.”

“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.”

Knows Mind Firsts Problem Desire Individual Goal Attitude Steps Achievement Law Of Attraction First Steps Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem Great Achievement Personal Achievement Individual Achievement

Author:W. Clement Stone

“The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.”

“First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”

Firsts Motivational Steps Taken Progress Achieve Achievement Remains Notion Hardest Moving Forward First Steps

Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself”

Steps Achievement Consequence Oneself Sincerity Every Step Steps Forward Toughness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.”

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Book:The Masquerader (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

Source: The Masquerader (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

“The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.”

Mind Humans Ends Poetry Literature Steps Poet Activity Achievement Aim Prose Human Mind Crowns Delicacy

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.”

Growth Quality Steps Power Achievement Increase Fulfillment Appetite Will Power Cancellation

Book:The Lathe Of Heaven

Source: The Lathe Of Heaven

“I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals”

Helping Bigs Goal Realizing Race Steps Achievement Majors Training Athlete Focused Help Me Quests Stay Focused Down The Road Variables

Author:Lance Armstrong

“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.”

“The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.”

“Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.”

Success Business Steps Four Plans Achievement Positivity Planning Pursue Decision Making Positively Achievement And Success

Book:Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

“It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”

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Book:Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret

“In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!”

“Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.”

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.”

Source: Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941

“We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.”

“Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family. Materialism, ambition and mundane achievements are the worldly hallmarks of success. We experience the phenomenal world and our minds as solid and truly existent. Very few people doubt these assertions and question their solidity. Yet, the process of disbelief is the first step on the spiritual path.”

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

“As long as you're actively pursuing your dream with a practical plan, you're still achieving, even if it feels as though you're going nowhere fast. Its been my experience that at the very moment I feel like giving up, I'm only one step from a breakthrough. Hang on long enough and circumstances will change, too. Trust in yourself, your dream and spirit.”

“Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process.”

Men Earth Spirit Next Process Steps Evolution Achievement Logic Intention Finals Inevitable

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.”

Success Steps Victory Achievement Bounds Accomplish Leap Leaps And Bounds

Author:Lyn St. James