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Achievement Quotes
"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited."
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"The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. "
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"Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation."
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"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."
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"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
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"As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud."
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"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation."
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"Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time."
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"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."
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"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."
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"Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn't have the first clue how to get you there."
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"Big thinking precedes great achievement."
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"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
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"Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement."
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"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
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"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."
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"Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear."
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"First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct."
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"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games."
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"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."
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"I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all, He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they, You shall be fully glorified in them."
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"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement."
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"Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years."
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"Don't just be alive; once you have arrived, find the reason why and make that reason accomplished."
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"It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner."
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"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
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"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."
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"We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about."
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"As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions."
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"But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure."
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"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them."
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"Now, 0 for 50 would be a historic achievement on any other team, but on the Cubs it is usually called September."
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"Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place."
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"John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'."
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"Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment."
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"The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself."
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"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
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"All great achievements are attained through mighty obstacles."
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"We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition."
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"The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally."
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"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
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"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
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"Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness."
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"Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils."
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"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."
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"We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums."
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"With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects."
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