Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 226
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.
Eric Thomas
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
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Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.
Neal A. Maxwell
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.
Piet Mondrian
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.
The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.
Tony Snow
Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.
Keith Henson
Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.
Postponing action is only postponing achievement.
Rick Pitino
What man can imagine he may one day achieve.
Nancy Hale
Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
Omar Bongo
Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.
Julie Walters
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.
Susan Cain
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Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
