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“Good is not good, where better is expected.”
“Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.”
“With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.”
“It was possible in this wonderful city for that nameless little boy -for any of its millions- to have a decent chance to scale the walls and achieve what they wished. Wealth, rank or an imposing na...”
“Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just d...”
“...no matter how much Theo achieves and acquires and out-dazzles everyone else, she never seems content. She's taught you that people who shine more lavishly that everyone else seem to be penalized...”
“To achieve something is better than not achieving.”
“When you set your mind to achieve something, you must allow yourself the opportunity to get it done.”
“There is no such thing as S CCESS without U in it!”
“We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.”
“No achieving without believing”
“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.”
“She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.”
“The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little. You've done well, and honourably.”
“It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.”
“Realize the joy there is in trying to accomplish the impossible.”
“Luck is just the result of a positive mental attitude.”
“a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.”
“Remember, for there to be any change in your life circumstances, you must change. You must improve yourself. You must develop your mind. You must change your company. If you want to fly like the ea...”
“The problem with striving for the best, is that there will be always better than the best.”