"The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat."

-- A.J. Cronin

#Motivational Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Victory Quotes

“I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.”

Source : "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.
“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
“There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.”
“No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“I've got to be kind of careful because I've had good advice: "Don't sell yourself too short." I have to not be too available to everything that comes along. I've always been a people pleaser and now I'm upping the ante in terms of price so I can be more selective. I really enjoyed working on three tracks on Sara Groves' [parenthood-focused] album Station Wagon. I love playing on those songs and I love the heart in that album.”
“Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.”
“People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.”
“Well, higher-income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they can move their investments. They can stop investing. They can stop working. They don't need to work. They're higher-income people.”

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