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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)
- We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
- Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912)
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- He who would leap high must take a long run.
- Danish Proverb
- Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
- Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
- 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)
- Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
- La Fontaine
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