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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. -- Napoleon Hill
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession. -- Florenz Ziegfeld
All great achievements require time. -- Maya Angelou
Big thinking precedes great achievement. -- Wilferd Peterson
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. -- Charles Spurgeon
...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. -- Leo Tolstoy
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. -- Dalai Lama
I saw 'Avatar' and liked it very much. It was a great achievement. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions. -- Dale T. Mortensen
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time. -- John C. Maxwell
All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed -- Pat Cash
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. -- Marc Ribot
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. -- Joseph Conrad
Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance. -- Robin Sharma
Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them. -- Brian Tracy
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. -- Kenneth Clark
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. -- Orison Swett Marden
You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement. -- Napoleon Hill
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me. -- Alicia Machado
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us. -- Marc Garneau
I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights. -- Buzz Aldrin
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. -- Milton Friedman
We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity. -- Lamar Alexander
The label of 'marathoner' has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled or tiptoed. When you cross that finish line, you've entered an elite group. About one-tenth of one percent of the population has done it. Don't let anyone take that great achievement away from you. -- Jeff Galloway
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring) -- Lisa Kleypas
Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Great achievement always requires great sacrifice. -- Robin Sharma
Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
No great achievement is possible without persistent work. -- Bertrand Russell
happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement. -- Francoise Sagan
The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full. -- Robert Breault
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. -- Robert K. Greenleaf
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! -- Orison Swett Marden
The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring. -- H. L. Mencken
Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement. -- Rickson Gracie
The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement. -- John C. Maxwell
What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? -- Iain Banks
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history. -- Lord Acton
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort. -- Brian Tracy
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isâ?¦the higher achievement. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. -- J. G. Holland
It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy. -- Darren Hardy
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up. -- William Feather
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible. -- Pierre L. van den Berghe
The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity. -- Bernard-Henri Levy
Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, 'Enough!' and standing up to fight. -- Darren Hardy
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet. -- George Mikes
Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question. -- Ryan Phillippe
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. -- Louis Kronenberger
Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. -- Claude M. Bristol
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. -- Nicholas Roerich
Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads. -- Ryan Giggs
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement. -- Oscar Wilde
Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely? -- Napoleon Hill
I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more. -- Harrison Salisbury
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task. -- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still! -- Brian Tracy
Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual. -- Charles M. Schwab
Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized! -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role. -- Gerard Butler
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. -- Elbert Hubbard
The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart. -- Harry S. Truman
Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role. -- Gerard Butler
It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something. -- Zach Braff
But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck. -- Howard Schultz
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality. -- Eric Hoffer
There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.' -- Roy Hodgson
If there is one thing I know, it's that with every great achievement in our lives, there is an insecure idiot hiding around the corner waiting to take a baseball bat to it. -- Dan Pearce
When I say "our," I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black person, just like a great achievement by an Anglo American is less important. -- Wynton Marsalis
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. -- B. F. Skinner

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