to gain with effort
"she achieved her goal despite setbacks"
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The hand that follows intellect can achieve. [ Michael Angelo ]
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. [ William Shakespeare ]
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. [ Bayard Taylor ]
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. [ Macaulay ]
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. [ Talfourd ]
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. [ Luther ]
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