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“The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires”

Persons Desire Chance Achieve Achievement Outcomes Flexibility

Book:Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

Source: Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

“There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige”

World Firsts May Faces Desire Fame Achievement Independence Reputation Prestige Independence And Freedom Adequacy

Book:A Theory of Human Motivation

Source: A Theory of Human Motivation

“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind.”

Men Mind Character Facts Action Desire Values Emotion Creation Products Pride Achievement Highest Recognition Premises

Author:John Galt

“The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.”

Desire Pleasure Achievement Appreciation

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“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.”

Running Desire Individual Wish Existence Quality Achievement Glory Vanity Merit Appreciated Whim Frivolous Personal Qualities

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.”

Ifs Should Self Hard Desire Goal Realizing Prayer Effort Achieve Hard Work Praying Achievement Negative Excellence Supreme Tendencies Sincerely Removal Supreme Being

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“If the Almighty in his mercy allows us to settle peace among the christian leaders, we shall press on not only to destroy completely the bad seeds, but also to expand the territories of Christ, and, supported by these achievements, we shall go forward, with God favouring his own purposes, to the most holy expedition against the infidels, the desire for which is deeply fixed in our heart.”

Ifs Heart Christian Desire Purpose Christ Leader Holy Achievement Mercy Presses Seeds Settling Fixed Territory Almighty Infidel Expeditions Christian Leaders Bad Seed

Author:Pope Leo X

“That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence--the desire to do something for themselves.”

Men Trying Believe Mother Desire Father Voice Knowing Share Achievement Hearing Myth Aspiration Mastery Competence Disabled

Author:Lillian B. Rubin