Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 178

Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.
Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
 Jean Racine
Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment.
 Mary MacKillop
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
 Frances Hesselbein
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.
 Nick Hornby
Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.
 Sally Field
People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.
 Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
 Pratibha Patil
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.
 Melvil Dewey
It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!
 Alicia Sacramone
I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.
 Keith Murray
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
 Price Pritchett
I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.
 Elie Saab
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
 Martha Stewart
The most frequent reason for unsuccessful advertising is advertisers who are so full of their own accomplishments (the world's best seed!) that they forget to tell us why we should buy (the world's best lawn!).
 John Caples
Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.
 John Eliot
Don\'t bother with New Year\'s resolutions if you don\'t have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.
Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.