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Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.

Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I found myself lifted above them. Instead of hardship, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy and conviction that I was following God's will. Blessings instead of hardships are showered upon me.

People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.

Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.

Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or more exactly its slow incubation. This was primarily due to Muslims down to the end of the twelfth century, then to Christians.

Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?

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.

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

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

Postponing action is only postponing achievement.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Pro Football Hall of Famer is something that everyone recognizes as the pinnacle of any achievement in sport. All the fame and all the recognition that we single out in various industries, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is really special.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

Real change isn't measured with words, it is measured with real achievements.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.

Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?

Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it's difficult to say who is more important than the other.

Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism, solidarity and logic. And even domestically, President [Vladin]Putin is slowly, step-by-step, restoring many important Soviet achievements that were torpedoed by a nitwit, and one gangster - [Mikhail] Gorbachev and [Boris] Yeltsin.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.