Achievement Quotes - Page 20

I can only compare myself to the players I was playing against. To say I won the Order of Merit playing only seven events out of 17 was to me a big achievement.
Ian Poulter / Golfer
Achievement
Compare
Merit
Myself Me I Can
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If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.
Yoshida Kenko / Author
Achievement
Ambition
Way
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To me, life is huge and thrilling and exciting and explosive and loud. If I can make music that communicates that and reflects that, then that's an achievement.
Andrew W.k. / Singer-Songwriter
Achievement
Loud
Thrilling
Life Music Me
Explosive
Reflects
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Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.
Marianne Williamson / Author
Achievement
Careers
Personality
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The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.
Germaine Greer / Journalist
Achievement
Joy
Struggle
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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 / Author
Happiness
Uplifting
Work
Best
Business
Achievement
Difficult
Easy
Funny Inspirational
Satisfaction
Happiness Best Work
Best Work Business
Come
After
Does
Doing
Demanded
Our
Difficult Task
Task
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I want my sheer work to to speak for my talent and it will be quite an achievement, I believe, if producers and directors look at my work and offer me something.
Sanam Saeed /
Achievement
Sheer
Work Believe Me
Work Look Believe
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It's not that achievements prove our worth but rather that the process of achieving is the means by which we develop our effectiveness, our competence at living.
Nathaniel Branden / Psychotherapist
Achievement
Effectiveness
Mean
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Life
Motivational
Achievement
Higher
Passing
Pleasure
Seeing
Affords
Difficulties
Forming
Gratified
Step
Wishes
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
Alice Munro / Author
Achievement
Childhood
People
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Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.
George Polya / Mathematician
Achievement
Expression
Thinking
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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 / U.s. Representative
Future
History
Achievement
African American
Black
Black History
Celebrate
Rich
Achievements
Month
Commemorate
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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 / Writer
Men
Achievement
Ambition
Caring
Folly
Vain
Lower
The Only Thing
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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin / Psychologist
Achievement
Aspiration
Raises
Above
Somewhat
His Way
Sets
Steadily
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When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn't a part of building it; I wasn't a carpenter in creating that juggernaut.
Johnny Galecki / Actor
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Carpenter
Great Achievement
Time Great Me
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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
Brian Ferneyhough / Composer
Achievement
Doubt
No Doubt
Reluctant
Although
Archetypes
German
French
Correct
Reduced
Respective
Traditions
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Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.
Lucas Papademos / Former Prime Minister Of Greece
Government
Achievement
Assuming
Facilitate
Funding
Objectives
Assume
Fiscal
Governments
Independently
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Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.
Eknath Easwaran / Author
Achievement
Busy
Life Is
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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
James Russell Lowell / Poet
Achievement
Feelings
Good Life
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Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."
John Eliot / Psychologist
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Crazy
Views
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It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness /
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Nineteenth Century
Would Be
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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
Oscar Wilde / Writer
Achievement
Mother
Suffering
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The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah / Lawyer
Achievement
Odds
Struggle
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden / Author
Inspirational
Motivational
Success
Failure
Achievement
Circumstances
Effort
Endeavor
Honest
Persistent
Success Best Always
Success Best Failure
Possible
Often
While
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As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.
Dwight D. Eisenhower / 34Th U.s. President
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Normal
Nuclear
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Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Achievement
Relief
Version
Carried
Degree
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2010 was an incredible year for me. I won the Best of the Super Juniors, and went on to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title. That was an unbelievable achievement.
Finn Balor /
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Unbelievable
Best Me Win
Heavyweight
Junior
Title
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God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.
Dillon Burroughs / Writer
Achievement
Agility
Goodness
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
Salman Rushdie / Novelist
Achievement
Artist
Done
Indian
Pinnacle
Single
Period
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Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
Alexander Von Humboldt / Naturalist
Achievement
Passion
Successful
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Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
Vijender Singh / Professional Boxer
Achievement
Celebrate
Platinum
Timeless
Way
Life Your Better
Like
Just
Achievements
Better Way
Metal
Milestones
Precious
Than
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..I heard Ori Kam and was deeply impressed with his achievements as a violist. His technical and interpretive skills are truly unique. I see a great future for him.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Achievement
Skills
Unique
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We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.
Agnivesh / Social Activist
Achievement
Goal
Play
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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 /
Achievement
Air Power
Stronger
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Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
Steve Wynn /
Achievement
Clutter
Static
Aside
Push
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You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.
Brian Tracy / Entrepreneur
Quality
Achievement
Degrees
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How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?
Celestine Sibley / Author
Achievement
Advice
Secret
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This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
Henryk Sienkiewicz / Journalist
Achievement
Doe
Fertile
Genius
Homage
Polish
Soil
Rendered
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No one can motivate you to do anything. You motivate yourself, based on information you receive and how directly you can relate it to your own potential achievement.
Mark Barnes / Attorney
Achievement
Information
Relate
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In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.
Henry Ward Beecher / Minister
Achievement
Engineering
Greatness
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Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.
Robert Forman Horton /
Success
Achievement
Lying
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Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.
Charles M. Schwab /
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Industrial
Practical
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Don't give up, no matter how hard it is. Things are going to be tough down the road, but the more work you put in, the more achievement you're going to get out of it.
Alphonso Davies /
Achievement
Down The Road
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To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
Gustav Krupp /
Achievement
Fate
Great Man People
Our People
Placed
Whose
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I've always been a big believer that winning a Super Bowl is an outstanding achievement, but that doesn't really reflect on what type of career that a person has had.
Donovan Mcnabb / American Football Player
Achievement
Believer
Outstanding
Super Bowl
Big Believer
Bowl
Reflect
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Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee / Former Prime Minister Of India
Achievement
Mere
Survival
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The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.
Stanley Hauerwas / Theologian
Achievement
Greed
Identification
Primal
Sin
Theological
Reminder
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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 / Diplomat
Achievement
Class
People
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There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.
Jane Leavy /
Achievement
Mike
Demons
Incompatible
Laugh
Mostly
Nor
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It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.
Reid Hoffman / Entrepreneur
Achievement
Impossible
Stories
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