#achievement

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#always #any #best #circumstances #effort

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#amazing #elected #handed #hard #help

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself. ↗

— David Millar

#also #back #bikes #bones #break

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. ↗

— Ovid

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My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#along #better #biggest #came #changed

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. ↗

— Robert Plant

#awards #cliche #crucial #drifting #i

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. ↗

— David Remnick

#achievements #bitterness #everything #gorbachev #him