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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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"Every great soul was inspired by another great soul."

"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."

"The secret to success is belief and hard work."

"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."

"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."

"To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible."

"The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops."

"Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do."

"Excellence never seeks excuses."

"All worthwhile endeavours begin in your thoughts, and focusing your thoughts appropriately will increase your chances of success."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

"Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."

"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
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