Achievement Quotes - Page 33

• This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

  Barack Obama

  War, Years, Nine

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Hope, Writing, Ambition

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• ...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

  John G. Kemeny

  Teacher, Teaching, Math

  John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”

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• Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

  John Eliot

  Thinking, Overachiever

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• If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.

  Howard Schultz

  Teaching, Learning, Impact

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Even though it'll never be flat again, my stomach is my favorite part of my body because it reminds me of my greatest achievement - my babies.

  Isla Fisher

  Baby, Body, My Favorite

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• It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

  David McCullough

  Phenomenal

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough Great Moments in History E-book Box Set: 1776, The Johnstown Flood, Path Between the Seas, The Great Bridge, The Course of Human Events”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Goal, Laughing

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• When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that's not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Couple, Team

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• The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.

  Preston Cloud

  Nature, Web Of Life, Earth

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• For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Success, Art, Games

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• I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Class, People, Society

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• They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Awards, Tchaikovsky

  "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

  Seth Godin

  Impact, Strategy, Our Future

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• I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.

  Percy Cerutty

  Goal, Training, Not Interested

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• The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Love, Honest, Devotion

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.242, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sorry, Reality, Forever

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

  Margot Asquith

  Asking, Youth, Enough

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• A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

  Richard Posner

  Diversity, People, Progress

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• Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

  John Searle

  Animal, Ideas, Design

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• Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Men, People

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• Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

  Stuart Wilde

  Knowledge, Goal, Trying

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• As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Men, Goal

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• Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Motivational, Self, New Day

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• The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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