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“I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Happens Wish Achievement Gains Athlete Optimistic Grants Palestinian Almighty Olympics Qualifying

Author:Nader al-Masri

“Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.”

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Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do”

Ifs Men Want Mind Firsts May Wish Differences Ability Doubt Achievement Accomplish Every Man Unlimited

Book:Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

Source: Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”

“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

“It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.”

Would Be Wish Learning Achievement Method Chess Idle Presumptuous Alekhine

Book:The Art of Chess Combination

Source: The Art of Chess Combination

“We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.”

Night Wish Achievement Rewards Recognition Proportion Rewards And Recognition Employee Recognition Recognition And Appreciation Employee Appreciation

Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

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

“Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.”

Ifs Funny Time Wish Half Achievement Our Time Insperational Funny Motivational Wishing For Things

Author:Alexander Woollcott

“You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“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

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

“You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.”

Wish Can Do Greatness Achievement Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship

Book:The Secret of Power

Source: The Secret of Power

“A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.”

“Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them.”

Want Wells Wish Goal Achieve Depends Achievement Preparation Reaching Setting Goals Life Goal Wishful Thinking Reaching Your Goals

Author:Ronald McNair

“A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.”

Believe Wish Sleep Talking Study Doubt Plans Listening Achievement Quitting Preparation Winner Criticize Persist Daydreaming Blueprints Procrastinating Frowning

Author:William Arthur Ward