“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 within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.” -Helen [...]
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“Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Denis Waitley
“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstandingsuccess because they don’t know when to quit.Most men succeed because they are determined to.”~ George Herbert Allen
I feel that the greatest reward for doing it is the opportunity to do more. – Jonas Edward Salk
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill….Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance. – Samuel Johnson
Death comes to allBut great achievements build a monument.Which shall endure until the sun grows cold. – Georg Fabricius
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. – Sir James Matthew Barrie