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Achievement Quotes
"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 great achievements are attained through mighty obstacles."
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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 achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
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"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them."
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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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"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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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
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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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"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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"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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"If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms."
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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 greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
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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 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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"I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world."
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"Become great through the currency of time."
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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 be the best in whatever you're doing you need to have a master plan."
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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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"Seek wisdom, and success will find you."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole."
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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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