2,199 Quotes About Achievement

  • Author Tom Baker
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    The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

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  • Author Vera Brittain
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    At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.

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  • Author Vanna Bonta
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    Society's indolent, mediocre, or even criminal are not hated with daily public fury reserved for those who accomplish and achieve.

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  • Author Adam Clayton
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    Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

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  • Author Adam Clayton
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    It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

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  • Author Alan Curbishley
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    It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. It was a night for the fans, but I would swap it for a home win in the league.

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  • Author Ashley Carr
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    It feels amazing. It's a new year, a new experience. Every year is so different. It's just a huge, huge, huge accomplishment that we even did this.

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