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Achievement Quotes
"All great achievements are attained through mighty obstacles."
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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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"The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community."
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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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"Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement."
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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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"But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure."
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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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"You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."
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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
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"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."
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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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"Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!"
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"Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others."
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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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"I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did."
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"Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement."
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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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"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."
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"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
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"The greatest accomplishments in life come from the heart."
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"Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive."
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"Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity."
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"People who have NO ambition to make a difference in this life should not interrupt the people who DO."
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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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"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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"It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature."
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"Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody."
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"I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight."
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"For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed."
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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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"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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"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
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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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"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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"You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record."
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"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
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"I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal."
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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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"Darlin', I wasn't just a Boy Scout, I was an Eagle Scout."
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
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"After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two."
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"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them."
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"His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish."
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"At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to."
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"That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight."
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