achievement

quote: The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

quote: Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

quote: With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

quote: It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

quote: But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

quote: Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

quote: The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

quote: Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

quote: Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

quote: Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

quote: The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

quote: There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

quote: Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

quote: Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

quote: Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

quote: Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

quote: Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

quote: Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

quote: Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

quote: My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to
persuade my wife to marry me.

quote: Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

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

quote: We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.

quote: Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

quote: 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.

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