A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.
Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 130
Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.
Henry Chester
I start where the last man left off.
I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!
Bill Murray
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If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.
Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything that isn't working out perfectly every time.
Frank Miller
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.
The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.
When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Margaret Spellings
Never confuse movement with action.
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
Gustave Flaubert
Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.
Gregory of Nazianzus
There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.
Harvey Mackay
I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: How can I get in on that?
The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players
Jack Ramsay
Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.
Oveta Culp Hobby
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Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
