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- 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, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
- Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
- Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
- If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
- John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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