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Achievement Quotes
"And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession."
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"Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness."
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"An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of 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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"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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"There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful."
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"I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world."
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"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."
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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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"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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"Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils."
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"If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms."
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"Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL."
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"Big thinking precedes great achievement."
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"All great achievements are attained through mighty obstacles."
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"Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is."
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"The world will never know you because you did not drain all your potentials to the last drop."
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"The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board."
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"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
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"Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day."
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"All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is."
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"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
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"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
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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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"It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed."
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"I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal."
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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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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means you developed endurance, perseverance and will-to-win as a core part of your character."
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"The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can."
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"It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents."
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"When we desire and hope for excellence and take action we become what we desire."
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"It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans."
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"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important."
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"Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement."
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
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"Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind."
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"To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain."
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"The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community."
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"We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life."
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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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"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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"Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't."
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"Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached."
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"Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance."
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"Your Crystal Clear vision should provide you a glimpse of a new universe and turn your excuse for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of resources for success."
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