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Great players are willing to give up their own personal...

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Quote by Paula Abdul

So, I truly don't know what my mom was doing financially. I know that we ate, and times weren't like they are now. I don't know that my mother could have achieved all she achieved on her income today. In today's market, at her income level, I'm...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about stores, mother

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I...

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Quote by Woody Allen about humor, immortality, work

All great achievements require time.

All great achievements require time.

Quote by Maya Angelou about philosophy, time

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about survival, evolution, leadership, bad luck, good luck, chance, nation, success

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, ...

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about americans

I don't strive for perfect continuity, which is good, ...

I don't strive for perfect continuity, which is good, because I'd never achieve it.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about perfection, good, good luck

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about nation, failure

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more...

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about talking, state, money

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull....

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

Quote by Dean Acheson about politics

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest...

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

Quote by Pearl Bailey about contentment

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about work, things, contentment

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about present, man

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about money

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction...

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Quote by Bruce Barton about chance, talent, man

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those...

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Quote by Bruce Barton about faith, nothing

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve...

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Quote by James Lane Allen about man

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know...

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Quote by Warren Beatty about success, contentment, work

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