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Achievement Quotes
"When you receive what you begged for, it only lasts for a short time. But what you build day after day will stay on for posterity to meet. Be a world changer and work out your dreams."
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"When we fail we pursue the success.When we succeed we party."
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"My success has nothing to do with opportunities or luck, I just keep doing things until it is done."
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"There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success."
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"We both loved her. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to."
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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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"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
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"I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore."
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"You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else. And to do that you have to train hard and strive your utmost, and sometimes even that isn't enough, because another runner just might be more talented than you are. Here's the truth: if you want something, you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. (That's the problem with Karl: he was afraid of failing, so he never really tried.)"
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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 had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed."
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"Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor."
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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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"If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?"
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"Successful people consistently put their best "self" forward."
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"When I think of excellence in motion, I think of the big picture. Because of the magnitude of this concept, I look at it from an aerial perspective. It is a mindset that challenges the boundaries of self-induced limits-that point where you aspire to exceed your expectations, where the mind-body-achievement connection resides and wins time and time again."
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"I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing."
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"When you are enthusiastic and optimistic with faith, nothing will be impossible for you to achieve."
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"You have to be wowed enough with your gift to wow the world with it."
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"It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
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"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement."
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"It's never just a game when you're winning."
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"Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way."
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"Mastery does not exist."
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"To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible."
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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development."
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"All worthwhile endeavours begin in your thoughts, and focusing your thoughts appropriately will increase your chances of success."
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"It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal."
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"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
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"Having a talent is not all that a matter, bearing noble and lasting fruits with your talent is the real matter."
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"Making a name for yourself comes from working hard."
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"Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."
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"The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops."
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"Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty."
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"I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off."
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"Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it."
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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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"Its been enough enjoying now, let's begin achieving."
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"We wanted to be accepted by our fellows, especially the influential natural leaders among us; and the ethos of my peers was " until my last year at Oundle " anti-intellectual. You had to pretend to be working less hard than you actually were. Native ability was respected; hard work was not. It was the same on the sports field. Sportsmen were admired more than scholars in any case. But if you could achieve sporting brilliance without training, so much the better. Why is native ability more admired than hard graft? Shouldn't it be the other way around?"
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"Successful people play the part of being successful consistently in all that they do."
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"For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant."
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"In our natural world, it is the strongest of the species that claim their space, seek out new territories, explore their surroundings, and learn how to survive and thrive. It is those same qualities that enable us to apply confidence and command to transcend the mediocre and achieve outstanding results."
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"Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true."
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"Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value."
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"The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it."
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"Seek wisdom, and success will find you."
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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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"Every great achiever overcame the greatest obstacles."
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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."
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"Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses."
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