Achievement Quotes
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Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.
William P. King
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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
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles F. Kettering
Keywords: achievement :: always :: expectation :: framework :: high :: in :: of :: place :: takes :: theSubject: Expectation QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Alfred North Whitehead
Keywords: achievement :: are :: be :: creative :: has :: mankind :: of :: periods :: prolific :: seldom :: stirred :: to :: tranquility :: upSubject: Tranquility QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Aaron McNally
Keywords: achievement :: always :: expectation :: framework :: high :: in :: of :: place :: takes :: theSubject: Business QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
Thomas Jefferson
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin
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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day`s work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes
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It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.
Ian McKellen
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[Presenting the Lifetime of Achievement Award to director Sidney Lumet at the 2005 Academy Awards] As an old village poet put it to me in the 1960s. [If you dig it, it`s yours]. I dug Sidney Lumet back then. I dig him now because what he had to give, I to...
Al Pacino
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[on Audrey Hepburn] A great lady. It`s quite an achievement to spend that long in Hollywood and not become a Hollywood product. She always maneuvered around that -- and that takes intelligence. She was always her own person.
David Niven
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While accepting his Director of the Year award for Sideways (2004) at the Palm Spring Film Festival: "I thank you for this award, though I think there may be a problem with a world in which making small, human and humorous films is `an achievement.` It sh...
Alexander Payne
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A facial birth defect doesn`t get in the way of achievement. Parents need to instill a positive sense of self-esteem in their children so they can pursue their dreams.
Stacy Keach
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[about her daughter, Liv Tyler] "She is my proudest life achievement: She and I have always been great friends, and I simply adore her. I`m her biggest fan, as she is mine."
Bebe Buell
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I feel very undeserving. I feel the award is a bank loan, which I`ll take out and pay back by the end of 20 years, and by then I`ll feel more deserving. - On receiving his Lifetime Achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
Sam Mendes
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I think that the most important achievement of my career was getting paid for something that I really wanted to do.
Oliver Reed
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[during his speech after receiving the AFI Life Achievement award] Though my feet are tired, my heart is not.
Sean Connery
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Whenever anyone asks me to do something about my life`s work, I keep saying, "Please, I haven`t finished yet. Can you give me another year?" . . . In a lifetime achievement award, you just have to watch yourself grow old in 45 minutes.
Michael Caine
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[from his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys in 1991] Well, my daddy, he didn`t leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, "Son," he said, "you know it`s possible to becom...
Bob Dylan
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The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
Gary Cooper
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[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] "I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film ed...
Alfred Hitchcock
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Upon winning his lifetime achievement Oscar, 1983: "Tonight, I could even kiss Louis B. Mayer!"
Mickey Rooney
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[upon being awarded his second honorary Academy Award in 1979, an Oscar statuette for Lifetime Achievement, "for the full body of his work, for the unique achievements of his entire career and his lifetime of contribution to the art of film," presented by...
Laurence Olivier
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You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind`s greatest political and social achievement.
Paul Tsongas
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With the effort we`ve put in, I don`t think we deserve to go home as losers, so it`s a must-win game for us. It would be a massive achievement to win here. Circumstances have forced us to play several new players so to beat India with all their experience...
Andrew Flintoff
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While on the surface all may appear to be well in these schools, if we dig deeper we find that achievement could be better in some subjects, or for some groups of pupils, and that these schools are falling way behind in terms of providing the sort of educ...
David Ball
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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
