Achievement Quotes
2338 Achievement quotes by 1374 unique authors
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The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.
— Robert Breault
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D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It…
— Stephen Ambrose
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Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and…
— Boris Johnson
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Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.
— Ronald Reagan
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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…
— Andrew Sullivan
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is…
— Ville Valo
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Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
— Peter Drucker
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Diversity worship and multiculturalism are currency and cause for celebration at just about any college. If one is black, brown, yellow or white, the prevailing…
— Walter E. Williams
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Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the…
— Walter E. Williams
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If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.
— Abdul Kalam
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Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
— William J. Clinton
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Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in…
— William J. Clinton
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Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset…
— Alan Colmes
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He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence…
— Gay Talese
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Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.
— James A. Murphy III
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Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.
— Hans Selye
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If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown…
— Henry Thomas Hamblin
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Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The house praises the carpenter.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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