#achieve

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. ↗

— Ross Perot

#about #achieve #foot #game #give

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#country #does #freedom #grew #hope

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#capacity #creative #factual #fictional #lasting

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#access #achieve #american #american dream #broadband

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. ↗

— Giacomo Puccini

#artistic #awakening #faculties #high #inspiration

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#achievements #cannot #direction #done #great

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#add #because #bit #every #everyone

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#confident #i #london

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#actions #american #american people #charity #compassion

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#because #handsome #hung #looks #present