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Achievement Quotes
"There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful."
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"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
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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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"Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust."
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"Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!"
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"After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two."
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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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"The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed."
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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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"The greatest accomplishments in life come from the heart."
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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
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"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them."
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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 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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"I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more."
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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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"We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life."
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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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"Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement."
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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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"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's 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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"I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world."
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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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"Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive."
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"Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance."
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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 United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values."
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"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
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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 a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things."
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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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"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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"To be the best in whatever you're doing you need to have a master plan."
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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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"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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"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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"I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal."
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"The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated."
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"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
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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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"People who have NO ambition to make a difference in this life should not interrupt the people who DO."
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