"Never confuse motion with action."

Franklin, Benjamin on Action
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on Self-control
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Confucius on Action
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on Beauty
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on Action
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on Work
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"Education is not received. It is achieved."

Unknown, Source on Education
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"All great achievements require time."

Schwartz, David J. on Perseverance
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"Never mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on Achievement
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"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on Enjoyment
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"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

Confucius on Right and Rightness
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"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

Confucius on Rewards
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"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in."

Confucius on Inaction
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"Read much, but not many books."

Franklin, Benjamin on Books - Reading
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

Franklin, Benjamin on Books - Reading
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"Drive your business, let not your business drive you."

Franklin, Benjamin on Business
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"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in."

Franklin, Benjamin on Wives
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"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

Franklin, Benjamin on Conflict
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on Excess
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"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

Confucius on Family
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius on Family
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"The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."

Confucius on Faults
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"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement."

Unknown, Source on Peace
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

Delacroix, Eugene on Perfection
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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."

Ovid on Achievement
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"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."

Stein, Ben on Cooperation
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"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

Shakespeare, William on Greatness
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"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Achievement
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"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."

Mencken, H. L. on Writers and Writing
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Achievement
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on Achievement
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"Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing."

Conner, Bart on Chance
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"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

Nash, Ogden on Conscience
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"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

Churchill, Winston on Achievement
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"I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve."

Sergeevich, Ivan on Love
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on Sacrifice
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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on Happiness
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"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

Rockefeller, John D. on Goals
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"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."

Stein, Ben on Happiness
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Peace
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