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"One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."	Etty Hilsum
"You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time."	William E. Holler
"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"	Elbert Hubbard
"He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much."	Elbert Hubbard
"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."	Elbert Hubbard
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."	Victor Hugo
"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
"What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces … trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are … those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less."	Henrik Ibsen
"[Today's students] can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own."	William James
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."	Thomas Jefferson
"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."	James Earl Jones
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."	Carl Gustav Jung
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."	Helen Adams Keller
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."	Helen Adams Keller
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."	Robert Francis Kennedy
"Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession."	Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."	Michael Korda
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Ernest Hello	Etty Hilsum	Fran Lebowitz
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Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Gerard Hargraves	Golda Meir
Golo Mann	Hans Albrecht Bethe	Harry Gray
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Hayes	Henrik Ibsen
Henry Ford	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Alfred Kissinger
Heraclitus	Herman Hesse	Idi Amin Dada
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl Jones
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jan Ashford	Jesse Louis Jackson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John B. Gough	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Kenneth Galbraith	Josh Billings	J(ean) Paul Getty
J. Arthur Lewis	Kahlil Gibran	Lao-Tzu
Lewis S(amuel) Feuer	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lloyd Alexander
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mack R. Douglas	Madame Chiang
Marie Curie	Maurice Chevalier	Menander
Michael Korda	Mignon McLaughlin	M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher
Napolean Hill	Og Mandino	Oswald Mosley
Pearl Bailey	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Peter Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reinhold Niebuhr	Rensis Likert
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Montgomery
Russell Greene	R. D. Laing	Saint Augustine
Sir Walter Besant	Sophia Loren	Srully D. Blotnick
Stephen R. Covey	Sydney J. Harris	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Arnold Bennett	Ursula K. LeGuin
Victor Hugo	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Warren G. Bennis
William James	William Jennings Bryan	William Adams
William E. Holler	William John Bennett	Woody Allen
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