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• The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Topics in Achievement, Society

• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Mind
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  I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

  Ken Venturi

  Topics in Achievement, Success

  Tags in Else, Better

• 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

  Topics in Achievement, Work
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  You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

  Zig Ziglar

  Topics in Achievement, Dream, Life

  Tags in People, Help

• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Topics in Achievement, Vision

  Tags in Great, Often

• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

  George Takei

  Topics in Achievement, Country

  Tags in Glorious

• Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Prolific, Creative
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  Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Themselves, Care, Done

• Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

  George Lucas

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Realistic, Goals
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  The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Difference, Ground

• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that’s been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that – there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in School

• My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

  Simon Cowell

  Topics in Achievement, Success

• I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Measure

• Proving I’m a good mother is the one achievement I’m most proud of. It’s brought out the best in me.

  Sheena Easton

  Topics in Achievement, Mother

• Often, when you’ve reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it’s hard to remember that.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Topics in Achievement, Perfection

  Tags in Yourself

• I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Sensation, Feeling

• Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Consistently, Career

• Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Racing
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  If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

  Zig Ziglar

  Topics in Achievement, Goal

  Tags in Actually, Reach, Mind