Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it'sfree-but it can't go anywhere.

"I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling."

"Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and foolswhat they wish to do."

"The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful."

"Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least."

"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! "

"If you don?t climb the mountain, you can?t view the plain."

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk."

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home,a companion but not a friend.

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

"The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep."

"To go beyond is as bad as to fall short."

"To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth."

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances."

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."

"This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting."

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."

"Hell, there are no rules here ? we're trying to accomplish something."

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

You can finish school, and even make it easy -but you never finishyour education,and it's seldom easy.

"If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty."

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

"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. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults,"when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."

"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon ? deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits."

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever ? the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. "

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they'reon the same side.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do aboutyour personal economy.

"The heights by great men reached and kept,Were not obtained by sudden flightBut they, while their companions slept,Were toiling upward in the night.

You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.

Standing on what too long we boreWith shoulders bent and downcast eyes,We may discern ? unseen before,A path to higher destinies."

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to expressgratitude for.

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."

"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement."

"Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit."

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation."

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage."

"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

"She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others."

"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting."

"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high."

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

"The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-fiveyears ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon"comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of man's attainment. They wereconsidered figments of man's imagination, but now many of these miraculous, imaginative thingshave become realities and man is pushing onward toward new and higher goals of achievement. Weare now mentally prepared for every new invention and advancement in technology and the sciences, but, nevertheless, stand amazed at man's powers to create and achieve. These outstandingaccomplishments, which approach the miraculous, to me are unquestioned evidence of man's divinenature.Man has sent up satellites which circle the globe. He has taken the breathtaking, miraculousride about the earth. He expects to circle the moon and even land man on the outer planets;also he considers feasible floating platforms in outer space as intermediate stations forinterplanetary travel."

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignityyou rob him his destiny.

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to expressgratitude for.

Winner's Blueprint for AchievementBELIEVE while others are doubting.PLAN while others are playing.STUDY while others are sleeping.DECIDE while others are delaying.PREPARE while others are daydreaming.BEGIN while others are procrastinating.WORK while others are wishing.SAVE while others are wasting.LISTEN while others are talking.SMILE while others are frowning.Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

COMMEND while others are criticizing.PERSIST while others are quitting."

"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be."

"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have."

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish."

"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come."

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

It's not the situation, but wheather we react (negative) or respond (positive) tothe situation that's important.

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