A Quote by Jim Rohn

Don't mistake movement for achievement.

Jim Rohn

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Achievement Mistake Movement

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Jim Rohn
American - Businessman
September 17, 1930 - December 5, 2009

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Jim Rohn

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

Holly Near

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

John Wooden

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

Making a mistake is also an achievement.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

Nora Ephron

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

Fredric Wertham

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

Mahatma Gandhi

I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.

Mairead Corrigan

Never mistake movement for action

Ernest Hemingway

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

Sanford I. Weill

Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.

Simone de Beauvoir

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

They made a mistake. And it was an easy mistake to make. I don't regard setting incentives aggressively as a mistake. I think the mistake was, when the bad news came, they didn't recognize it directly. I don't think that impairs the future of Wells Fargo. They'll be better for it.