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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
English
Mathematician
Born:
Feb 15
,
1861
Died:
Dec 30
,
1947
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Me
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
Motivational
Hope
You
Achievement
Yourself
World
Vision
Live
Living
Enrich
Finer
Spirit
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Merely
Make
Greater
Enable
Errand
Forget
Order
Here
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness
Achievement
Creative
Joy
Lies
Thrill
Effort
Happiness Lies
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Happiness
Work
Best
Achievement
Business
Difficult
Our
Easy
Demanded
Come
Does
Doing
Task
After
Satisfaction
Difficult Task
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill
Great
Achievement
Result
Sacrifice
Born
Never
Selfishness
Great Achievement
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
Naveen Jain
Love
Me
Achievement
Better
Pride
Father
Giving
Doubt
Father's Day
Fatherhood
Back
Has-Been
About
Giving Back
Inspiration
Better Person
Unconditional
Unconditional Love
Importance
Without
Greatest
How
Been
Source
Person
Taught
Being
Reinforced
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Success
Achievement
Words
Progress
Without
Improvement
Meaning
Growth
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. Lewis
Success
Failure
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Finger
Posts
Road
Toward
Fails
Failures
Repeated
Forward
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand
Happiness
Life
Loyalty
Achievement
Integrity
Result
Values
Pain
Mindless
Moral
Proof
Only
Purpose
Since
Your
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett
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Youth
Power
Understanding
Innocence
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Embrace
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Self-Actualization
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Improve
Personal
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