"Never mistake activity for achievement."
John Wooden
"The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move."
John Wooden
"Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it."
Peter Drucker
"The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive."
Peter Drucker
"Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is."
Peter Drucker
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking."
Stephen Hawking
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
Aldous Huxley
"The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter... if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he is evil. I think that the worst thing you could say is that he is, basically, an under-achiever."
Woody Allen
"Energy and persistence conquers all things."
Benjamin Franklin
"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
Henry Ford
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
Benjamin Franklin
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
Abraham Lincoln
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