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ACHIEVEMENT
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We
have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary
goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared
culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national
and local diversities that enrich our lives.--
Mahnaz Afkhami
“People
of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because
they are determined to.”
-- George Allen
"It
may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand
a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence
and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may
indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in
many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time.
It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect
when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can
do it."
-- Kofi
Annan
"Goodness
is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men,
attended by love."
-- Saul Bellow
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Respect
your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree
with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore
your thoughts about one another candidly, work together
for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating
anger.
-– Bill
Bradley
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The
young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore
they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation
after generation.
-- Pearl
S. Buck
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“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled
success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you.
Achieve! Achieve!”
~ Andrew
Carnegie
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It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can
be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history
will automatically resolve the problems … However, with
faith and perseverance, … complex problems in the past
have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.
-- Jimmy
Carter
The
art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying
and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life
lie not in great things but in little. The rarity of happiness
among those who achieved much is evidence that achievement
is not in itself the assurance of a happy life. The great,
like the humble, may have to find their satisfaction in
the same plain things.
-- Edgar A. Collard
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I
draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that
small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic
possessions have really become to mean less. They mean
nothing.
--
Sheryl
Crow
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Internal
peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in
the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple.
In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind
is one, that human beings in every country are members
of one and the same family.
- The
Dalai Lama
Success
is achievable without public recognition, and the world
has many unsung heroes. The teacher who inspires you
to pursue your education to your ultimate ability is
a success. The parents who taught you the noblest human
principles are a success. The coach who shows you the
importance of teamwork is a success. The spiritual leader
who instills in you spiritual values and faith is a
success. The relatives, friends, and neighbors with
whom you develop a reciprocal relationship of respect
and support--they, too, are successes. The most menial
workers can properly consider themselves successful
if they perform their best and if the product of their
work is of service to humanity.--Michael DeBakey, M.D.
Be
ambitious! You will never achieve anything greater than
you set your sights upon. Great endeavors do not just
happen, they are undertaken by average people who gain
a vision of how to make the impossible possible.”
-- John Di Frances
"You
can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work
and giving someone else the credit."
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
"The
value of achievement lies in the achieving." -- Albert
Einstein
A
human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself,
his thoughts and feelings as something separated from
the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature
in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself a
part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security
-- Albert
Einstein
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Peace
cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved through
understanding.
-- Albert
Einstein
Explore
YOUR family tree
and Find YOUR Roots & Connections
When
you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put you whole
soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Satisfaction
does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full
effort is full victory.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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We can dream together a dream of a better world, an
ever-renewing, organic-based earth-community. I believe
we can achieve a large part of it in our lifetime.
~ Randy
Hayes
How many
a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more
effort,
a little more patience, would have achieved success?" - Elbert
Hubbard
No
achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony
with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted
from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend
upon us.
-- Cordell
Hull
...the
fullest development of the highest powers of men can be
achieved only in a world of peace.
-- Robert
Maynard Hutchins
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“The
burden of being black is that you have to be superior
just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you
achieve, you have achieved, indeed.”
-- Jesse
Jackson
"Optimism
is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be
done without hope and confidence."
-- Helen
Keller
Only
those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
"If
we are to achieve true peace in this world, it shall
have to begin with the children."
-- Craig
Kielburger
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If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons,
we need the involvement of young people. Youth have
energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most
importantly, however, it is young people who will be
inheriting the problems which have been left to them
by the generations past.
-- Marc
Kielburger
What cannot
be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime
is joined to another.
-- Harold Kushner
It is
above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and
compassion and hope.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
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"With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let
us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do
all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting
peace among ourselves and with all nations."
-- Abraham
Lincoln
"That
some achieve great success, is proof to all that others
can achieve it as well."
-- Abraham
Lincoln
Leaders
aren't born they are made. And they are made just like
anything else, through hard work. And that's the price
we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
-- Vince Lombardi
"A
difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain
the conviction that our existence holds a purpose -
a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve."
-- John Maxwell
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"If
we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in
which each diverse gift will find a fitting place."
-- Margaret
Mead
“A
leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can
be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get
it done.”
-- Ralph
Nader
We
are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing
to the achievement of the goal of the abolition of war
and its replacement by world law. I am confident that
we shall succeed in this great task; that the world community
will thereby be freed not only from the suffering caused
by war but also through the better use of the earth's
resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and of the
efforts of mankind, from hunger, disease, illiteracy,
and fear; and that we shall in the course of time be enabled
to build a world characterized by economic, political,
and social justice for all human beings and a culture
worthy of man's intelligence.
-- Linus
Pauling
Practice
hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently
happy spirit.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"What
we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
-- Otto Rank
Happiness
is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the
joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. -- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
It
is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds
could have done better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs
and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause,
who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if
he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
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The
quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival.
But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love
rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion;
if in the process we learn to combine the essential with
the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the
practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive
to embark on this great task.
-- Joseph
Rotblat
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know
the facts are more likely to achieve good than those
who view the world through the distorting medium of
their own desires. -- Bertrand
Russell
Peace
of mind is not a goal I need achieve.
It's a place inside I never want to leave.
Close my eyes, I still my thoughts and then I say
I will choose to live in peace today.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
We
must not rest until right livelihood is within reach
of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish.
We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.
-- Swami
Agnivesh
What
you get by achieving your goals is to as important as
what you become by achieving your goals.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
If you
can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you
can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
“Four
steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully.
Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.”
- William Arthur Ward
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"In
a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the
need to achieve that change without violence is essential
for survival."
-- Andrew
Young
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