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"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
"Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do."
"Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!"
"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."
"I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing."
"Mastery does not exist."
"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."
"Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so."
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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission."
"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
"The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves."
"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."
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