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Achievement Quotes
"There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful."
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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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"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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"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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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
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"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."
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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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"I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world."
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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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"We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life."
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"Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust."
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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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"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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"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them."
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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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"The greatest accomplishments in life come from the heart."
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
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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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"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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"Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement."
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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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"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
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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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"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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"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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"The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated."
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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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"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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"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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"The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values."
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"The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement."
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