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

  Benjamin Jowett

  Topics in Achievement, Society

• You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind’s greatest political and social achievement.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Represent, Principles

• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Topics in Achievement, Goal

  Tags in Measure, Standards

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

  Gavin DeGraw

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Sensation, Feeling

• 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

• The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• I’m not the type who’ll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

  Aishwarya Rai

  Topics in Achievement

• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Splendid, Material, Civilization

• Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Iranian

• Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

  Ann Bancroft

  Topics in Achievement

• The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe’s great achievements – liberty, peace and prosperity – as a given.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Generations, Disappearing

• When you’re young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

  Pearl Bailey

  Topics in Achievement, Age, Goal

  Tags in Accomplishment, Lies, Excellence, Men

• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

  Irving Babbitt

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in American, Impressive

• But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Achievement, Luck

  Tags in Survival, Concrete

• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Topics in Achievement

• Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Achievement, Failure

  Tags in Road, Posts

• Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Happiness

• For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Achievement, Children, Success

  Tags in Enjoyment, Things, Interest, Importance

• 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

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Great, Grows, Until, Build