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Achievement
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.
Helen Hayes
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffer
Learn how to achieve the impossible.
Anonymous
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Etty Hilsum
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater
than he is.
Goethe
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Art of Achievement
by Wilfred A. Peterson
You hold in your hand the camel's hair brush of a painter of Life.
You stand before the vast white canvas of Time.
The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.
You select the colors of your thoughts;
drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad.
You select the colors of your emotions;
discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong.
You select the colors of your acts: cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.
Through the power of your creative imagination you catch a vision...
you dream a dream.
You visualize yourself as the person you want to be.
You see yourself as a builder,
making a creative contribution to the evolution of modern civilization.
You strive to make the ideal in your mind become
a reality on the canvas of Time.
You select and mix the positive colors of heart,
mind and spirit into the qualities of effective living:
patience, determination, endurance, self- discipline, work, love and faith.
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career.
There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one increasing, dynamic purpose.
There are the lights and shadows that make your life deep and strong.
There are the little touches that add the stamp of character and worth.
The art of achievement is the art of making life...your life...a masterpiece.
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