Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Roger Staubach
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
James Allen
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Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right nor the left. Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded; they are disintegrating elements which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual, useless. Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplish anything, and never can. They always lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in.
James Allen
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A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.
James Allen
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Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence.
James Allen
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
Jack Nicklaus
Workaholics are addicted to activity; superachievers are committed to results.
Charles Garfield
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
No one overachieves. We're all underachievers to one degree or another.
John Wooden
It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.
Denis Waitley
People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.
John Maxwell
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill
You have deep within you an "urge to completion," or what is often referred to as a "compulsion to closure." This means that you actually feel happier and more powerful when you start and complete a task of any kind.
Brian Tracy
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