John Hope Quotes

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

John Hope

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• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Achievement

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

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Great
  • Achievement

• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Achievement

• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Achievement
  • Gift
  • Strive

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Quality

• I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Success
  • Road
  • Failure

• Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Love
  • Father
  • Inspiration

• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • May
  • Beginning

• The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Sick
  • Achievement
  • Funeral

• I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
  • Day
  • Beginning

• I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Young
  • Being
  • Mama

• I love watching Crufts on the television, especially the agility tests; I find them very impressive.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Find
  • Impressive
  • Especially

• To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Successful
  • Achievement
  • Big

• For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Health
  • Choices

• I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Real
  • Achievement
  • London

• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Best
  • Effort

• In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Singing

• The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

  

  George Will
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Strong

• More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.

  

  James Frey
  • Alone

• Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • World
  • Road
  • Service

• I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Long
  • Artist
  • Commitment

• To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Nature
  • Humanity
  • Temples

• Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

  

  John Hope
  • Achievement