Quotes about achievement
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. Charles Kuralt
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect. Bob Woodward
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We believe we have done this in a way that not only rewards players for their achievements at the highest level of the game, but ensures all players actively contribute to FFA's efforts to establish football in Australia as a fully professional and commercially viable sport. Craig Foster
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Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom. Bertrand Russell
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Very few teams go there. I think that's a great accomplishment. In our league, and in the Western Conference particularly, 50 wins means a lot. Avery Johnson
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We're focusing on trying to have all kids be successful learners and we continue to keep our focus on closing the achievement gap and issues around literacy and math, for kids. George Russell
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All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts James Allen
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It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all. Ayn Rand
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The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Calvin Coolidge
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Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'. Carl von Clausewitz
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It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth. Alain de Botton
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. Alan Bleasdale
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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. Andrew Wiles
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Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world. Timothy Ferriss
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I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. Charles Colson
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When you're alive you wonder how to live your life to the fullest, how to have accomplishment, success, money, and fame; but when you lay on your death-bed you wonder what good have I done in life!
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods. Ludwig von Mises
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We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval. Tullian Tchividjian
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As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. Brad Sherman
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I remember being cast in the first "Harry Potter" film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who'd been acting since they'd been crawling would be cast. The faith and trust that they'd put into everyone actually enabled you to gain confidence back, in the sense of feeling that sense of achievement, which is incredibly hard when you're young. Bonnie Wright
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct. Barry Levinson
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If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things. Edmund Hillary
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The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are. Eckhart Tolle
achievement needs consciousness
If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives. Bruno Bettelheim
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If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement. Eleanor Roosevelt
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It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans. Eliot Engel
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Losing the state championship, that's the highest level of achievement in basketball and we lost that. This year, we're getting another shot. A lot of times you don't get a second chance. We've got to come out. It's a game for revenge.
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Los Angeles Unified has quickly become the nationwide leader in promoting innovative public school options like charter schools to tackle the challenges of low student achievement and over-crowding. The school district is to be commended for supporting high-quality charter schools for the many families that continue to demand them.
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Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end