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Achievement Quotes
"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."
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"It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed."
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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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"I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it."
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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"When we desire and hope for excellence and take action we become what we desire."
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"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
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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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"Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement."
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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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"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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"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."
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"Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached."
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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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"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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"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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"Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it."
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"The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement."
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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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"The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it."
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"I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting."
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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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"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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"I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all, He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they, You shall be fully glorified in them."
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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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"The world will never know you because you did not drain all your potentials to the last drop."
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"It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note."
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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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"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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"Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us."
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"Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound."
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"Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement."
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"Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value."
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"I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars."
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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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"Whatever you can dream and believe, you can achieve."
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"A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to."
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"Take one step towards excellence, and success will take ten towards you. Take ten steps towards excellence, and success will take a hundred towards you. Take a hundred steps towards excellence, and success will take a thousand towards you."
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"No man has been rewarded world's richest man for sleeping away his every day and night."
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"For every success, there is a system."
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"Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated and brilliant people there are who fail utterly and completely. Goodness is not enough; how many meek and good souls are tilled into the earth like manure by demigods to fertilize their golden crops. There is something more - it is the unseen essential, and everyone has access to it."
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"There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success."
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"One is not born a genius one becomes a genius."
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"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
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"Whatever you set for yourself, you can achieve it."
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"Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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