Quotes and Sayings About Achievement
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
-- A.J. Cronin -
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
-- Aamir Khan -
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness
-- Abdul Kalam -
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
-- AberjhaniSource : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.21, Lulu.com
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It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
-- Abraham Maslow -
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige
-- Abraham Maslow -
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It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
-- Adam HaslettSource : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
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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 GallandSource : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
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Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.
-- Adolf Hitler -
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
-- Aeschylus -
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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 -
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.
-- AgniveshSource : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.
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I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
-- Ahmed H. ZewailSource : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific
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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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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
-- Al Duncan -
Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.
-- Al Duncan -
Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
-- Al Duncan -
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Achievement without fulfillment "High achievement without fulfillment is a broken way of life."
-- Al Duncan -
What's wrong vs Right with you It's not a question of what's wrong with you, it's a question of what's right with you.
-- Al Duncan -
Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.
-- Al Duncan -
That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
-- Alan Lightman -
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
-- Albert Camus -
The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
-- Albert Einstein -
Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
-- Albert Einstein -
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
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... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
-- Alex CareySource : Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.21, University of Illinois Press