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Achievement Quotes
"To be the best in whatever you're doing you need to have a master plan."
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"Seek wisdom, and success will find you."
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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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"All great achievements are attained through mighty obstacles."
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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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"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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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
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"I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal."
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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 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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"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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"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
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"Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor."
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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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"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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"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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"Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
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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 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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"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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"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
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"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
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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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"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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"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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"When we desire and hope for excellence and take action we become what we desire."
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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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"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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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
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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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"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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"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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