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#achievement

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But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.


Tom Robbins


#average #mediocrity #creation

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.


Theodore Roosevelt


#ambition #brave #caring #devotion #victory

Trust what you know; have faith in where you go; if there's no wind, row; or go with the flow.


Ed Parrish III


#act #believe-in-yourself #confidence #direction #faith

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.


John Drinkwater


#achievement #among #asserted #commonly #english

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.


Ethel Barrymore


#difficulties #discouragements #doubts #failures #false

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.


Jorge Luis Borges


#achievements #asking #envisaged #had #him

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.


Simon Cowell


#artists #because #been #britain #i

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.


Robert Vaughn


#always #believe #continuity #form #man

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.


Denis Diderot


#art #dazzling #glorious #level #literature






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