#achieves

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

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Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. ↗

— John Leonard

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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. ↗

— Stephen King

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Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

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