In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire world then when you look out and see the audience is identifying with you.
Bill Engvall
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.
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If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.
Richard Sherman
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
Vaclav Havel
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
Robert Staughton Lynd
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
Carol S. Dweck
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.
Mary Henle
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.
Robert Fritz
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
Alexander Alekhine
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
Seneca the Elder
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
Buck Rodgers
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Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
