Achievement Quotes - Page 5

• She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

  Ayn Rand

  Communication, Sight, Events

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.176, Penguin

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• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

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• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  Adam Ant

  Inspirational, Business, Ambition

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Looking Forward".

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• Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Happiness, Uplifting, Funny Inspirational

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• There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Levels, Strive, Higher

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Giving Up

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• Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Energy, Nuclear, Iranian

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• The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Artist

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• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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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.

  Henry Drummond

  Ambition, Caring, Men

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• I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Fathers Day, Kids

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• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

  Tom Robbins

  Leadership, Positive Thinking, Perspective

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

  David Rockefeller

  Father, Taken, Son

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Race, Massachusetts

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• To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

  Brendan Behan

  Food, Beer, Drunk

  Brendan Behan (1968). “The wit of Brendan Behan”

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• The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

  Paul Tillich

  Success, Maturity, Awareness

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• My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

  Marilyn Horne

  Beautiful, Mother, Daughter

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• I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

  Alan Shepard

  School, Thinking, Discipline

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• Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

  Max Euwe

  Sports, Games, Victory

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• Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Growth, Reason

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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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.

  Willard Libby

  Goal, Done, World

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• People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

  Katharine Anthony

  Thinking, People, Independence

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• I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

  Rick Rubin

  Artist, Goal, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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