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And what do you want?”I almost choked. “How could you even ask me that, Henry?”He sighed. “Because I’m thousands of miles away. Because I Skyped into your living room late one night and there’s a dude sitting next to you in the dark. Because Thanet tells me things. And Tennyson sent me a picture of you in a dress that looks like lingerie.”“It’s not that bad,” I said.“I didn’t say it was bad, Meg. It’s about a million miles from bad.” His voice was breaking with exasperation. “Things are crazy here, and I’m questioning everything.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass
Henry drew a shaky breath. “Do me a favor, Meg.”“Anything,” I whispered.“Don’t fall for Quinn O’Neill. If you’re going to do this thing with him…go to this dance, don’t fall for him.”“Never,” I said. “I promise.”“Because I’m all filled up on sad right now.” He sniffed again and I could tell he was more in control. “And you can’t ask me to sit by and watch you get all caught up in this guy. I can’t handle that—thinking he swept you off your feet because he bathed in body spray and dressed up.” His voice sounded rough. “I know you think I’m being funny right now, but I’m completely serious. Don’t make me watch that happen.”“You know my heart,” I said. “It’s yours.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass
She didn’t see me because of the reflection on the store windows, and she wouldn’t know me in this car anyway. In fact, she probably wouldn’t know me with shaggy hair and the beginnings of a beard. So I sat for a minute, watching her dusting bookshelves, either talking to herself or singing. Her feather duster had become a prop in whatever scene she had going. She looked heart-stoppingly, breathtakingly beautiful, my Meg.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass
Here’s what I learned about life when we were going through that. We’re all human and mortal. We’re all going to suffer and die. But it’s how we are with each other during those times that proves God’s here with us.” He turned his hand over in mine and entwined our fingers. “He comes in through people. People who love us anyway. They jump right into the chaos with us and try to help us make sense of it. That’s what mercy is…it’s choosing to help, or forgive, or love even when it goes against all logic.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough to hurt my feelings for a long time, and I wanted to let him.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
Then let me be your mercy,” he said. “I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
Love is often confused with attraction. Love is an action, it’s a choice. We can choose to love someone. Attraction, however, is a feeling, it’s an emotion, it’s temporary.
— Cole Ryan, Dear Guys: A New Way To Date
He ran his hand from my wrist up to the crook of my elbow and then to my shoulder. “When I was a little kid, my dad would come to my room at night to say a prayer with me. He used to say, ‘Lord, We know there’s a little girl out there who’s meant for Henry. Please protect her and raise her up right.’” His voice changed to something slower and more country when he mimicked his dad. He smiled at the memory, and then he put his mouth near my ear and whispered. “You were that little girl.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
He’d had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn’t look like anyone I’d ever seen before. He reminded me of an actor in an old Western—Rock Hudson in Giant—all dark intensity.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we’re going to start thinking of lovely uses for our bodies. I don’t care who you are.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
Is there one in particular, Tennyson?” Henry said, ducking out from under her arm. “I could arrange a meeting.” “Yeah, the one from Texas…what’s his name?”“That would be Dylan. But he’s a nice guy and you’d break his heart. He dropped out of Texas A&M to come up here and saddle bum around with my horses year-round. Knowing your dad, I think you’d better be looking for a pre-med honors student.”“Leave my dad out of this.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, “Promise?” Well, that genie’s out of the bottle and there’s no stuffing her back in.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
His room was dark until he switched on his desk lamp. I sat on the floor next to his bed and watched him counting clothes and considering shoes. He seemed so boyish right then—like he wished his mom would just come in and pack for him. I couldn’t possibly love him any more than I did at that moment.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble’s neck. “Good boy,” I said. “Trusty steed.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
On the best nights, he’d appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn’t had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find me, and he looked older than us and stronger than us.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
I'm thinking there should be a dating site called "Tap That" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy
— E.J. Eisman
I’d never seen him bare-chested. For the first time, he seemed vulnerable to me. His smooth, tight skin wrapped around the long muscles he’d developed over a lifetime of hard work. He found a shallow spot and sat, settling me onto his lap, holding my back to his chest. I couldn’t stop shaking and it had nothing to do with the water or with being half dressed in a cave with a boy.“Nothing else matters,” Henry said in my ear. “I’m here. Start at the beginning.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
We were sitting outside at our favorite Italian restaurant, Callini’s, one Friday lunch when Sam revealed to me what his ideal female looked like. A few women walked by and Sam used words like “big legs” and “too big up top” to describe women that barely weighed over 100 pounds. The following bomb then pried its way out of his mouth, “I’m still in love with Winny Cooper.”I replied with shock in my voice, “Winny Cooper from The Wonder Years?”Sam glowed, “Yeah, Winny is my ideal woman.”“You do realize that she was a little girl in that show,” I said trying to awaken Sam’s better judgment.He started laughing, “Winnie was a babe. I had a huge crush on her.”I needed clarification: “You do realize that you were in your 20s when that show was on. So, that would mean that you had a crush on a 12 year-old.
— Phil Wohl, Lunch with Sam
Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
There’s a certain worth that can only be given to us by God. You see, if you think about it, worth has nothing to do with the object. Worth has everything to do with how much someone is willing to pay for the object. God paid for each and every one of us with His son’s life. That gives me chills. That makes us worth a lot.
— Cole Ryan, Dear Guys: A New Way To Date
There’s a beautiful poem at the beginning of a collection of books we call the Bible. In that poem, it is written: "Then God said, ‘Let us make man.’” God then recognized that it was not good for man to be alone. We can all agree on that one, I think. Loneliness is one of the most excruciating pains that the human heart, or any heart, has to go through.What did God do about it?What was His remedy?What was His answer?He created marriage. He didn’t create dating, He didn’t create courting - He created marriage.
— Cole Ryan
He carried her over the Owl Creek mountain range without stopping,” he said, quietly this time. “He carried her until he reached one of the hot springs around what became Chapin, and then he walked into the water with her and held her there for three days. He had about given up when she opened her eyes and whispered his name.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
All in all, the lunch date was fine. Like an opened can of soda in its second hour. If you were thirsty, you might take a sip or two, but I carried more hopes walking in to the restaurant than I did walking out.
— Heather Dugan, Pickup In Aisle Twelve
Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.
— Junot Díaz, Drown
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.
— Alexandra Potter, Me and Mr. Darcy
It’s so evident to me now that just because someone is a great guy doesn’t guarantee we’ll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.
— Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl
I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners
— Hiroko Sakai
What's your name?""Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?
— Dennis Lehane, Live by Night
This catch-22 happens a lot to men. A man can sense that a woman wants to know if he loves her. He doesn't want to share those feelings because, if he does, she will expect him to marry her and be greatly hurt if he doesn't. In romantic movies, loving someone meant that you wanted to marry her. In real life, it is not always the case.
— John N. Gray
You can never please everybody, don't even try.
— Stella Oladiran, Winning Formulas
He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.
— Ken Grimwood, Replay
And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious.
— Tamara Ireland Stone, Time Between Us
I could kiss that girl. And ya know what? I will kiss that girl. As soon as I get back to school, I'm gonna grab her, and I'm gonna kiss her.
— Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession
I'm going to put the moves on her,' he says gravely. 'Things might get weird.' He says it like a commando setting up a midnight raid. Like: Sure, this is going to be extraordinarily dangerous, but don't worry. I've done it before.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Dating should really be more like furniture store commercials....I would love to' pay no interest for 6 months
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
So that's how we end up helping Aviva pick out a male escort. Even Darcy is impressed with Eugene's organization; each profile in the boy binder has two pictures, a head shot and a full-body shot, and lists essential information: age, school, height, weight, extracurriculars, hobbies, and dance ability (which ranges from "occasional Dance Dance Revolution participation" to "so good he could back up the Biebs").
— Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession
Some women like to treat a man like a piece of bubble gum. The poor sap thinks everything’s fine. And it is—until the taste runs out. Then she’ll just spit him out the car window of her life and never look back.
— Robert Burton Robinson, Illusion of Luck
I guess after you’ve writhed around naked on the floor in front of a man, the least you can do is let him take you to dinner.
— Andrea Laurence, Sexy as Hell
If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.
— Eleanor Prescott, Alice Brown's Lessons in the Curious Art of Dating
We are all somewhere else, during.
— Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks
Most people couple within their own height range- short couples are 8 percent apart, midsize couples are 8 percent apart. The exception is talls. Tall women, meanwhile, date men who are approximately the same size, 0 to 5 percent taller; extremely tall women go for men 0 to 2 percent taller. Tall men are kids in a candy store, dating whomever they want.
— Arianne Cohen, The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High
Does speed dating necessarily end up in a quickie divorce....?
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... I discovered that all fathers go berserk when their daughters start dating. I have to assume this was because all fathers were once teenagers at some point in their lives, so they had no illusions about whether or not the boys were “up to something.
— Gary Reilly, Ticket To Hollywood
Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich people, accomplished people and educated people.
— Arianne Cohen, The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High
She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That’s a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.
— Gary Reilly, Ticket To Hollywood
You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
He told me that when we first met, he had said to a friend about me: “If I get that girl’s number I will never ask another girl for her number again.
— Kimberly Novosel, Loved
And I met Madeline's necromancer. His name's Luca." "A death detector?" Tod made a face. "That's creepy." "It gets weirder. He's dating Sophie." "On purpose?
— Rachel Vincent, Before I Wake
The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the gun with unresolved anger, the guy with a chip on his shoulder, the guy who’s a vampire – and they tell you that you can have the mythical happy ending with that same brooding guy. But in reality, the brooding guy is cranky. He doesn’t reply to emails. He doesn’t call. He’s only half there when you’re talking to him, and he doesn’t chase you when you run. You feel insecure all the time. You get needy and sad and you hate yourself got being needy. If you don’t know why he’s brooding, you’re shut out.And if you do know why he’s brooding, you’re still shut out. (Because he’s busy brooding.)
— E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
You know you found the right one when you stop looking for "more.
— Laurel House
She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-ass underneath. She could ogle, but she would not fall until she knew he deserved her.
— Kimberly Kinrade, Forbidden Life
Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?""Don't be silly," Berry scolded. "It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he got a little miffed. No big deal.
— David Weber, Crown of Slaves
What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.
— Josh McDowell
If my ex-husband could move on, I could, too. I would search for my gardener, someone who would help me to grow and bloom, but who would recognize the fragility of a new flower just starting to poke out of the ground.If I was lucky, he’d have a long cultivator.
— Tracy H. Tucker, I Kill Me: Tales of A Jilted Hypochondriac
Dating meant nightclubs, heels, and black. It meant, "No, thank you. Really, I'm full." It meant matching bras and underwear. Clothes with the word MICRO used to describe them.
— Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
There were upsides to the whole mess. While Douglas was holding me hostage, I’d met a girl—I mean, screw dating websites and house parties; apparently all the really eligible ladies are being held in cages these days. I would have liked to see Brid fill out a dating questionnaire, though. What would she put? “Hi, my name is Bridin Blackthorn. I’m next in line to rule the local werewolf pack. I like long walks on the beach and destroying my enemies. I have four older brothers, so watch your step. We’ll be forming a queue to the left for potential suitors.”And, trust me, there would be a queue.
— Lish McBride, Necromancing the Stone
We kissed for two hours. Eventually, I led him into my bedroom and pulled off both of our shirts. He stopped me."This might sound weird; it's not typical guy response." I froze, suddenly awkward. "I mean, if I didn't feel the way I do with you I would be all for it, but I kind of think maybe it would be good to wait. I've rushed into sex, and had it be a mistake." He shrugged apologetically. "I mean, if it's safe to assume you are experiencing the same date that I am, then I think we will have time."I was a little flabbergasted and more than a little embarrassed. How could I explain that the idea sounded like a huge relief to me, that I didn't quite understand where the impulse to start taking my clothes off came from? I had had the same experience. I rarely enjoyed first-time sex with partners, largely because I usually did it before I really knew or trusted them. Here was where the difference between what I knew and did remained wide. The shame I felt wash over me was tinged with that hatred of my own innocence. Was I still so green? So unconfident? Had I gone straight out of the extremity of sex work to the innocence of my adolescence? Where was my self-knowledge? Still, I was relieved. "Of course. I agree totally." I clutched my T-shirt to my chest and smiled at him. "And yes, I am on the same date you are on.""I thought so," he said. "I mean, I don't think you can feel like this when it's not reciprocal."He left at 2:00 A.M. and called me at 11:00 the next morning to schedule our second date.
— Melissa Febos, Whip Smart: A Memoir
Courting is a much sweeter term than 'dating'. It sounds like it has more intent, more like an agreement that two people enter into with a future in mind.
— Kim Cattrall
I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ. 
— Jane Green, Dune Road
Maybe some poor slob would take you to bed if you weren’t such a ballbuster.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Glitter Baby
I think I’m going to cut down on my dating,’ Annie said. ‘I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren’t always the answer.
— Francine Pascal, Wrong Kind of Girl
Conflict of interest. I wanted to date somebody who was less screwed up than me, and she wasn't.
— Jason Krumbine, Just Dial 911 for Assistance
When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.
— Annette Curtis Klause, Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!
Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him."I'm glad we're going steady," he whispered."So am I."In spite of the reassuring weight of his bracelet on her wrist, Jane suddenly felt shy. It seemed strange to be so close to Stan, to feel his crisp clean shirt against her cheek. She could not look up at him. Gently Stan lifted her face to his. "You're my girl," he whispered.-Fifteen
— Beverly Cleary
I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.
— Margaret Way, Strategy for Marriage
Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
In Bruce’s opinion, the only fun in dating was the sport of it. The more it was like a tennis match, where he had to wear down his opponent through expertise and sheer force of will, the better he liked it.
— Francine Pascal, A Night to Remember
It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing
—  it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
— Theodore Roosevelt
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
— Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
— Ernest Hemingway
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
— Colin Powell
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
You are the greatest achievement of your own life.
— Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade
Only the impossible is worth doing.
— Akong Rinpoche
You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.
— Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.
— Marguerite de Navarre
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
— Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over a question that most of us would consider to have been settled years ago. The question is this: is there such a thing as innate talent? The obvious answer is yes. Not every hockey player born in January ends up playing at the professional level. Only some do – the innately talented ones. Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger role preparation seems to play.
— Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." 
— Katherine Dunham
She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Achievement seems to be connectedwith action. Successful men andwomen keep moving. They makemistakes, but they don't quit.
— Conrad Hilton
Good is not good, where better is expected.
— Thomas Fuller
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
— Tahir Shah
It was possible in this wonderful city for that nameless little boy -for any of its millions- to have a decent chance to scale the walls and achieve what they wished. Wealth, rank or an imposing name counted for nothing. The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
— Moss Hart, Act One
Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
...no matter how much Theo achieves and acquires and out-dazzles everyone else, she never seems content. She's taught you that people who shine more lavishly that everyone else seem to be penalized by discontent, as if they're being punished for craving a brighter life. I've been knocked down so many times I can't remember the number plates, she said once.
— Nikki Gemmell, The Bride Stripped Bare
To achieve something is better than not achieving.
— Sam Winters
When you set your mind to achieve something, you must allow yourself the opportunity to get it done.
— Tasha Hoggatt, What Makes You Great?
There is no such thing as S CCESS without U in it!
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.
— Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves
No achieving without believing
— Ghassan Shahrour MD
You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.
— Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gita
She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
What you achieve, endures throughout time
— Rafik Schami
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little. You've done well, and honourably.
— M. J. Carter
It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.
— Sam Smith
Realize the joy there is in trying to accomplish the impossible.
— Mani S. Sivasubramanian, The Icedrop
Luck is just the result of a positive mental attitude.
— Kevin J. Donaldson
a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.
— Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream
Remember, for there to be any change in your life circumstances, you must change. You must improve yourself. You must develop your mind. You must change your company. If you want to fly like the eagles, then you have to make friends with the Eagles and not with chickens. You can’t be in the company of chickens and hope to fly like the Eagles someday. Life does not work that way.
— Bien Sufficient
The problem with striving for the best, is that there will be always better than the best.
— Rafaa Khiari
The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.
— Robert D. Putnam
Why kill two birds with one stone? I go for the whole nestI am not satisfied with my work unless someone’s a bloody mess
— Justin Bienvenue, The Macabre Masterpiece: Poems of Horror and Gore
No achievement is too small if it leads to another.
— Kevin J. Donaldson
Hard work is the key to any achievement.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If want to succeed, you must work to overcome the obstacles on your path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest achievement is self discovery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When one is at the edge and falls then it’s a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that’s what’s life is about.
— Amit Abraham
If you list down whatever you didn’t get to do, then whatever you did won’t feel like it mattered.
— Saim Cheeda
I am still enjoying the success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hard work is the formula for success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.
— Matthew Syed
Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.
— Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
Achievement requires a strong will, failure, a stubborn won't.
— Rand Charles
First set a strong and clear inner voice and then do all that you want to achieve and the door will be opened.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.
— J. Paul Getty, How to Be Rich
Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls!
— Graham Kerr, Flash of Silver: ...the Leap That Changed My World
Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.
— Kevin J.  Donaldson
Having an achievement mindset is your competitive advantage
— Maxine Phillips
Achieving accomplishments without first making a sacrifice to gain them does not make you accomplished. That just makes you a lucky bastard.
— Adam Copeland
When it came to "getting away from it all," there really weren’t many places quite like the top of the tallest mountain in the world. He glanced around the summit, noting the other reason why he enjoyed coming up here. It was tradition for every expedition to the top of Everest to leave something behind—a small token or marker indicating their successful climb to the famous peak. Each one was different and each one seemed to reflect the personality of the party it represented: small flags and banners with the hand-written names of climbers past, a used oxygen canister, a spare glove, even a small metal lunchbox with (Clark noted with a small smile) a picture of Superman on the cover. To Clark, each of these markers indicated the pinnacle of human achievement, the fulfilled promise of the best the human race had to offer. And today, it represented something else as well: man’s ability to conquer the harsh reality of nature… a point in stark contrast to the previous night’s activities.This set were Sherpa prayer flags, each displaying a symbol, not of a distant god or mythological beast, but denoting some aspect of the enlightened human mind: compassion, perfect action, fearlessness. His thoughts turned to another example of the peak of human achievement, of what one man with drive, desire and dedication could accomplish without the benefit of superpowers or metagene enhancement. One that held a much more personal meaning to Clark.Bruce.
— Chris Dee, World's Finest: Red Cape, Big City
someday goals become never days of achievement
— Colin Myles, G.R.I.T. Spirit of an entrepreneur
When we fail, we think that is the end of life. Actually, it is the beginning of a greater life when we persistently preserved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Don't be too obvious about it.
— Auliq Ice
A person who does not get attached to anything, and never forgets to do his duty, will achieve everything.
— Debasish Mridha
Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal.
— Kishore Bansal
The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.
— Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
With sense of achievement comes satisfaction… and with satisfaction comes contentment. Contentment is ultimate goal of life.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
I have personally always admired a guy that tried to do something big, but this matter of doing something big has many definitions, and it seems that whenever there is anybody doing a good job, not everybody is going to be pleased, and then, it's just a matter of time before the barrage, verbal or vegetable, sets in.
— Carl Kiekhaefer
I find dreams of this type to be one of the wonders of the world and the human race. It is a miracle what can be built from a dream with nothing but two hands, and honest heart and ambition. Education is very important too, but even that is unnecessary if the dream is of sufficient strength and the cause is sufficiently noble and interesting to the individual.
— Carl Kiekhaefer
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile
— Walter P. Chrysler
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are brave of heart, sharp of wit, strong of spirit and steadfast of purpose, there is nothing you cannot achieve
— Kate Forsyth, Escape From Wolfhaven Castle
First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Don’t hold back because you’re afraid of hurting someone else. If your best friend wants to be a cheerleader and you make the team but she doesn’t, don’t feel guilty. If you end up earning more than your sister, it’s not a betrayal. Your success might be an inspiration for someone else, while limiting yourself to avoid upsetting the balance doesn’t help anyone. Equally, rather than being paralysed by jealousy when someone else is coming out on top, use it to spur you on to greater things. Some of our best achievements will be triggered by envy at seeing someone else fulfilling our secret ambitions.
— Rosie Blythe, The Princess Guide to Life
On SUCCESS: "Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers." (TM)
— Nanci McGraw, Organized for Success!: 95 Tips for Taking Control of Your Time, Your Space, and Your Life
Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting.
— Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men
— Amen Muffler
Can you remember when you finished primary, how about when you passed matric, graduation day, your learner's & license, getting your first salary slip and the most valuable of them all; having your first child, walking down the isle and even buying your first car:-) These are the common feelings from all those achievements: Gratitude, Fulfillment, Joy, Appreciation, Pride & your Worthiness. Now go achieve more
— Katlego Semusa
You must understand something. Money is not a sign of achievement.
— Jude Watson, Beyond the Grave
If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud, and try again.
— Sarah Dessen
Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.
— George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.
— Choa Kok Sui, Experiencing Being - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Life
Best tool to win hearts is "respect".
— Junaid Raza
Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you to become a better person and a greater leader.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
When it comes to achieving, what matters is you to know, what you really want and make up your mind to believe in your own efforts that you will achieve and you will make it with ease.
— Auliq Ice
We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.
— Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual
In achieving your greatest potential in life, the more enemies you'll make but just “Take care and play the game smart.
— Auliq Ice
The day you yearn greatly for in your life, will never come so easily as you think without great sacrifice.
— Auliq Ice
When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice.
— Auliq Ice
Great achievements are nothing more than a collection of small accomplishments.
— Justin Young
I would rather aim high and miss the mark than low and make it.
— Auliq Ice
If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.
— Edmund Hillary
The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
When you judge you are limiting yourself, you are limiting your reach.
— Jorge Gw, Awesome Happiness Now
Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.
— Denton Cooley
The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
— Ivy Baker Priest
Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.
— Ashok  Kallarakkal
Some people are just crazy about something while others are lucky enough to get that.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No gains are ever achieved without first taking the risk of trying.
— Norma Gail
Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time.
— Orrin Woodward
For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!
— Dr. Vivencio Ballano
It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and a SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE
— Tony Dovale
It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE
— Tony Dovale
I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Discipline transforms the gifted to the great.
— Raul Ramos y Sanchez, Pancho Land
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
— Ronnie Lott
Success is never achieved for when your think you reach it, something else grabs your interest.
— Todd Stocker, Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
Man's most important achievement is not about standing up and start walking but, standing up to speak the truth.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
Perfecting is a journey...There is no destination called perfection.
— Ashok Kallarakkal
When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.
— Shannon L. Alder
The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.
— Fridtjof Nansen
Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Progress and motion are not synonymous.
— Tim Fargo
Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits anyone who, answering to his vocation and fulfilling it, exerts himself within history; only the man who sacrifices every gift and talent escapes: released from his humanity, he may lodge himself in Being. (...) One always perishes by the self one assumes: to bear a name is to claim an exact mode of collapse.
— Emil M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist
How you try is more important than how hard you try.
— Tim Fargo
When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Bowl
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
— Jean Rostand, Pensées D'un Biologiste
I wake up starving for success, and no matter how much I accomplish I go to sleep striving for improvement; I refuse to let my enemies outwork me.
— Noel DeJesus, 44 Days of Leadership
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Achievement is not important, attempt is...!
— Milind K
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.
— Denis Waitley
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
— Horace
Life is what we make it to be; can be other people’s life or it can be our special one. The difference is that the first we sit and watch and basically we know the ending but the second is defined by us and require lots of work and effort to define the way we want to live by. It is a journey with no end in sight, no distance measured behind, just going. It is a faith similar to the faith to your God but this one is just faith in yourself and your capability to define a path with a vision of the future that you really can not see but rather feel and sense.
— Hisham Fawzi
The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.
I like "multi-"...multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement.
— Rossana Condoleo
When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.
— Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
Put some action on your good intentions!
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Achievements - Dreams= Action
—  Achievements-Actions= Dreams
When aspirations are perceived to be achievable, ambition and drive can erase excuses.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else
— Fela Durotoye
Struggling is hard, so is achieving success; so you may as well choose success, over time it’ll seem easier.
— Rob Liano
The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits.
— Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer
To live a fulfilling life is an endurance event, and the only way to get to the finish line is to focus on the present, checking from moment to moment that I am still heading in the right direction. The Atlantic taught me that no matter how huge and seemingly impossible the task, anybody can achieve extraordinary things, by simply taking it one stroke at a time.
— Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
In order to achieve there must be a sacrifice
— Jason Spooner
A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
— Florence Nightingale
It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.
— Henning Mankell, The Fifth Woman
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
— Bette Davis
Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us – to work harder or realize another purpose/talent.
— Aaron B. Powell
When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else.
— Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible
— Luthfy Es-Haq