achievement

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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

2.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

- Paul Tillich

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I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

- Joanna Field

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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

- Hoffer, Eric

5.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

- Mann, Golo

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The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

- David Rogers

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Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

8.

Fascism is a European inquietude. It is a way of knowing everything -- history, the State, the achievement of the proletarianization of public life, a new way of knowing the phenomena of our epoch.

- Rivera, J. A. Primo De

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

- Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

- Baldwin, James

11.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

- Welles, Orson

12.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

We will either find a way, or make one.

- Hannibal

14.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

- Jowett, Benjamin

15.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

- Plutarch

16.

Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.

- Conner, Bart

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Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

- Richard Bach

18.

The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

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Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

- Horney, Karen

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The journey is the reward.

- Proverb, Chinese