Achievement Quotes - Page 25

• There is no success without hardship.

  Sophocles

  Success, Congratulations, Hardship

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.177, University of Chicago Press

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• The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

  Kenneth Clark

  Luxury, America, Justice

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.61, Wesleyan University Press

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• If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Happiness, Powerful, Unhappy Person

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.62, Penguin

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• The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

  Max De Pree

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Giving Up

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• We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Political, Missing

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• As long as you're actively pursuing your dream with a practical plan, you're still achieving, even if it feels as though you're going nowhere fast. Its been my experience that at the very moment I feel like giving up, I'm only one step from a breakthrough. Hang on long enough and circumstances will change, too. Trust in yourself, your dream and spirit.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Uplifting, Dream, Giving Up

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• You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.

  Richard Evans Schultes

  Feelings, Use, Plant

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• Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks—a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.

  Tom Standage

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.

  Robert Mortimer

  Life, Humility, Obscurity

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• Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Character, People, Presidential

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Presidential, Records

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.769, Best Books on

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• I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, America, Presidential

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• Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

  Ogyu Sorai

  Math, Reality, Society

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• Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

  George Gilder

  Effort, World, Belief

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.103, Regnery Publishing

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• The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fear, Recovery, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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• Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Fear Of Failure, Driven

  "Lesson #4: Break Through That Wall". www.evancarmichael.com.

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• Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

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• It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

  David Millar

  Romantic, Fighting, Winning

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• . .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Children, Believe

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• The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Decision

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• Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or as a recollection or even as an evaluation from others. lt's not something that you can physically hold onto or repeat at will. Only when you acknowledge the special moments can you truly feel the effects of your most wonderful achievements.

  Tommy Tune

  Ballet, Special, Doe

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• The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

  Janet Jackson

  Self Love, God Love, Humans

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• Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

  Adolf Galland

  Stronger, Air Power, Aviation

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Government, Independence, Able

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• The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Long

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