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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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"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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"Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation."
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"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
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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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"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."
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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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"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation."
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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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"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
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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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"After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two."
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"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."
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"A successful person's life is made up of a time when he gets out of bed, and a time he goes to bed; and in-between them is filled up with a time that he makes sure something definitely happened!"
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"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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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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"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 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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"But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure."
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"Become great through the currency of time."
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"To be the best in whatever you're doing you need to have a master plan."
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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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"We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
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"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them."
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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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"Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time."
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"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
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"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
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"Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor."
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"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."
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"And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement."
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"Seek wisdom, and success will find you."
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"She kept the wish to herself, as she should have, and simply blew out the candle.I clapped and whistled and then dove into my own cupcake, dying to know how my creations tasted. And seeing as I'd done the hard work-frosting and decorating-I felt like I could take credit and call them my creations. All Cassie had done was get the ingredients, come up with the recipe, and do all the measuring and mixing."
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"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."
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"Big thinking precedes great achievement."
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"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
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