Extraordinary Achievement Quotes:

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

- Matt Biondi

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

topic: Athlete, Persistence, Achievement, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Athlete

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion, Improve Self Esteem, Inspiring Business

Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.

- Robin Sharma

topic: Inspiration, People, Ordinary, Extraordinary Achievement

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

- Nastia Liukin

source: Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012

topic: Gymnastics, Afraid Of Failure, Deserve, Inspiring Athlete, Coaches And Athletes

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Powerful, Ambition, Achievement, Extraordinary Achievement

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

- Scott Belsky

source: Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.149, Penguin

topic: Achievement, Vision, Definitions, Extraordinary Achievement

This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

- Barack Obama

topic: War, Years, Achievement, Extraordinary Achievement, Nine Years

Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades we've taken for granted all of the extraordinary achievements of the post-war generation. You know, building this global alliance structure that has kept the peace across the North Atlantic since World War II. Building all of these institutions, building all this remarkable technology. And people have privatized. You know, you can now, you don't have to go outdoors much, the whole world comes to you.

- David Frum

source: Source: www.cbc.ca

topic: War, Taken, Past, Post War, Extraordinary Achievement

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Leadership, People, Achievement, Extraordinary Achievement

The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Wall, Responsibility, Color, Rubble, Extraordinary Achievement

Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

- Chaz Brenchley

topic: Regret, Real, Rain, Extraordinary Achievement, Wasted Life

It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -- all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations.

- Barack Obama

topic: War, Fighting, Government, Self Reliant, Partnering

All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: War, Character, Two, Matched, Extraordinary Achievement

If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.

- William J Doherty

topic: Children, Couple, Achievement, Extraordinary Achievement

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

- Michael Pollan

source: Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Civilization, People, Sick, Extraordinary Achievement

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

- Wayne Thiebaud

topic: Art, Mean, Achievement, Extraordinary Achievement