Oscar A. Kirkham
“No one can fail if he does his best.”
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John Wooden
“Don't mistake activity for achievement.
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Author Unknown
“Things that are most important are often the hardest to do.”
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David J. Schwartz
"All great achievements require time."
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Author Unknown
“Achieving starts with believing.”
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Vince Lombardi
“If it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose why do they keep score.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
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Author Unknown
“Excellence is always the exception”
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Mark 10:27
“For with God all things are possible.”
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George M. Van Valkenburg
“Failure is the path of least persistence.”
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Author Unknown
“Achievement and work or often synonymous.”
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Author Unknown
“Triumph is just try with a little umph added to it.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
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Author Unknown
“Real achievement is orderly advancement toward a worthy goal.”
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Wilfred A. Peterson
“Big thinking precedes great achievement.”
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Author Unknown
“It is not enough to be busy, we must be productive”
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John 13:17
"If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."
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Author Unknown
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
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Charles F. Kettering
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
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Oscar Wilde
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
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Author Unknown
“There are no shortcuts to life's greatest achievements.”
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C. S. Lewis
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
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Henry Ford
“You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.”
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Author Unknown
“Success is orderly advancement toward a worthy goal.”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Let each become all that he was created capable of being.”
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Lowell Thomas
“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.”
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Author Unknown
"When time of action comes the time of preparation is past."
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Spencer W. Kimball
"It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto."
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Author Unknown
"People respond to challenges. They don't respond to begging."
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Walt Disney
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
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Author Unknown
“Your won’t leave many footprints in the sand if you are sitting.”
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Helen Keller
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
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Bo Bennett
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”
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Author Unknown
“One step up the mountain widens the horizons in all directions.”
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Thomas Huxley
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
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Shirley Lord
“What really matters is what you do with what you have.”
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Author Unknown
“Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”
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Jack Kinder
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
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Author Unknown
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
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Pablo Picasso
“I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.”
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Author Unknown
“Following the path of least resistance makes both rivers and men crooked.”
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Robert F. Kennedy
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
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Author Unknown
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
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Abraham Lincoln
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
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Matthew 5:48
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
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Harold Wilkin
“The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”
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Harold Taylor
“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”
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Ziz Ziglar
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want”
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Author Unknown
“Yesterday is over and tomorrow may never come so we best achieve what it is we want today.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
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Author Unknown
“If you need a helping hand hold your arms out ant take a look at the first two that should help.”
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Henry Ford
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
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Author Unknown
“Yesterday is over and tomorrow may never come so we best achieve what it is we want today.”
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Harold Taylor
“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”
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Aristotle
“For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”
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Susan Taylor
“Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.”
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Author Unknown
“Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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Author Unknown
"If you spend too much time watching people act out their dreams you will never reach your own."
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Author Unknown
“Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest and it is hardest when we work the easiest. “
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Eleanor Roosevelt
"One thing life taught me -- if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you."
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Jack Nicklaus
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.”
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Randal Wright
“Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.”
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Winston Churchill
"It's no use saying, 'We are doing our best'. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
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Matthew 6:33
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
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Catherine Pulsifer
"With your entire 'focus' on your goal, you will reach levels of achievement that you never thought possible."
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Charles De Gaulle
“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
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George Washington Carver
“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.”
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Author Unknown
“Some accomplish unbelievable things in one area only fail at most important things. It’s balance that is needed.”
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Frank Clark
“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.”
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Author Unknown
“It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.”
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Napolean Hill
“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”
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Author Unknown
“We must carry out and finish everything that we start. Every undone or unfinished task becomes an obstacle to our progress.”
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H.L. Hunt
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
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Author Unknown
“Many spend their entire lives climbing a latter only to discover at the top that it was leaning against the wrong building.”
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Ben Stein
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
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George L. Morrisey
“Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
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Gordon Parks
“Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.”
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Dale Carnegie
"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
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William Jennings Bryan
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.”
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Denis Waitley
“Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.”
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Andrew Carnegie
“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a questions he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“To generate steam requires 212 degrees. If you have 210 degrees you have wasted your fire. Almost having steam in a locomotive mean nothing.
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Conrad Hilton
“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”
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William Jennings Bryan
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
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Orison Swett Marden
“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
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Author Unknown
“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”
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Nido Qubein:
“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people”
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Hugh B. Brown
"Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"The work of the world is not done by intellectual geniuses. It is done by men of ordinary capacity who use their abilities in an extraordinary manner."
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George Fabricius
“Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
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Ecclesiastes 9:10
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”
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William James
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that you can change your circumstances by changing your attitudes of mind."
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Author Unknown
“Trying to achieve anything will bring resistance. While going through your trial recall past victories and count your blessings. Knowing more will come if you only endure.”
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Greg Hickman
“It is time to break through the barriers that have held you back and held you down for such a long time. It is time to reach out and indelibly etch your place in history.”
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John F. Kennedy
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
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Golda Meir
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
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W. Clement Stone
“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.”
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Gian-Carlo Menotti
“Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.”
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Florence Scovel Shinn
“Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”
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Kurt Thomas
“I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.”
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Author Unknown
“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”
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Brian Tracy
“Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.”
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Richard G. Scott
"Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life."
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Ecclesiastes 9:11
“I returned , and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding , nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
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Hugh Nibley
“Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.”
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
“I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All significant achievement results largely from perseverance.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Present levels of performance are not acceptable either to ourselves or to the Lord. In saying that, I am not calling for flashy, temporary differences in our performance levels, but a quiet resolve...to lengthen our stride
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Marion G. Romney
"It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own action determine our blessings or lack of them."
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Calvin Coolidge
“Press on- nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
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Helen Hayes
“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”
