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Showing posts with label achievement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label achievement. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2009

You still have music to play

"Most people go to their graves with their music still inside them." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

W's Thoughts on Graduation

"To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States." -- George W. Bush

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Edison on Stretching Ourselves

"If we attempted all the things of which we are capable, we would literally astound ourselves." -- Thomas Edison, via a Toastmasters Meeting agenda

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Monday, July 16, 2007

Thoreau on Achieving Success

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." -- Henry David Thoreau, via Elite Etiquette Tip of the Week

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Monday, June 11, 2007

Successful people have goals

"All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go." -- Norman Vincent Peale, via Elite Etiquette Tip of the Week newsletter

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Highest reward for your work

"The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it." -- John C. Maxwell, via a company intranet home page

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Monday, June 04, 2007

Friday, June 01, 2007

Keith Ferrazzi on what it means to be the best

"There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best in the world, as long as you remember that doing so also means wanting to be the best for the world." -- Keith Ferrazzi, in his book Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, page 297

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Monday, April 09, 2007

Accomplishment is a journey

"Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Monday, April 02, 2007

Henry Drummond on stretching yourself

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

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Monday, March 05, 2007

Work at your game

"Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who is. And one day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage." -- "Easy" Ed Macauley

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Friday, February 23, 2007

Robert Schuller on Preparation

"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation." -- Robert Schuller

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Monday, February 16, 2004

Lincoln on Individual Pursuits

"I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other man’s rights." -- Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Persistance Makes Things Happen

"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely and the likely definite." -- Author Unknown, found in signature line of an email message

Friday, February 06, 2004

Henrik Ibsen on how we really change

"It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will." -- Henrik Ibsen

Saturday, June 14, 2003

Achievement | "You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." -- Jimmy Carter

Sunday, March 02, 2003

America | "We must dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity." -- Thomas Jefferson

Friday, February 07, 2003

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, January 31, 2003

"Do the thing and you'll have the power." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, August 07, 2002

"Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American Poet and Essayist