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• Everything I’ve accomplished I’ve accomplished through the grace of God and pure stubbornness

  Mary Fairchild

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• Constant dropping wears away stones

  Benjamin Franklin

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• The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

  Kenneth Clark

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• The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

  Wilma Rudolph

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  Tags in Accomplishment, Gold

• We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

  Richard Joseph Daley

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• I think my greatest single achievement took place on a Tuesday in March, when, with much bribery and corruption, I got them to clear the Grand Canal. That was truly Wagnerian.

  Tony Palmer

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• His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman’s changing room.

  Jonathan Larson

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• Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

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• It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

  Robert McNamara

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• Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

  Robertson Davies

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• We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

  Aldo Leopold

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• It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

  William Cobbett

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  Tags in Misery, Reach

• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

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• Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

  Albert Bandura

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• Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

  Archibald Cox

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• Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

  Ethel Barrymore

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• Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

  Brooks Hays

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• To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Achievement, Success

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• Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause

  Nathaniel Branden

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