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Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. (Quote by - Frankfurter, Felix)
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help. (Quote by - Gaza, Dorotheus Of)
The greater part performed achieves the less. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
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)
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. (Quote by - Yasser Arafat)
No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness. (Quote by - John McGraw)
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. (Quote by - Bertrand Arthur William Russell)
It is a good lesson -- though it may often be a hard one -- for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. (Quote by - Ernest Shackleton)