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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate, still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world. .

Alec Issigonis said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committee for an animal adapted to communities without water.. it was a divine consensus.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Every teacher has to learn the lession.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.