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Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

Discipline is the fuel of achievement.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

Donald Trump and Sean Spicer do one thing after another to keep the media attention focused on them. And it works. These legislative achievements are being made which are chipping away at anything the government has that's of any use to anybody. Paul Ryan, I think, is the most dangerous guy in the government. He knows what he's doing. And it's very systematic. I presume he's behind the cabinet appointments, but it's pretty amazing that every single cabinet appointment is somebody devoted to destroying that part of government.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

Don't mistake movement for achievement.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

Education is inoculation against disruption.

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a "creation," but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural condition. You come to see the evolution of the soul, the soul's journey, as a realization of what has always been there in the first place.

English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.

E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together.

Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.

Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.

Even though it'll never be flat again, my stomach is my favorite part of my body because it reminds me of my greatest achievement - my babies.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.