Achievement Quotes — Page 31

Actor, Producer, Rapper

“I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.”

Numbers Office Achievement

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last”

Two Achievement Greek

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“The mathematics of high achievement”

Achievement Mathematics

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Tracy Repchuk

Entrepreneur, Author

“My biggest achievement is my children.”

Children Achievement

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Virginia Woolf

Novelist

“We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.”

Sports Love Is Achievement

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Theodore Roosevelt

Politician, Author

“While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.”

Littles Achievement Natural

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Tyson Fury

Boxer

“If they want to take all the belts, they can take them, but they'll never take what I've done and my achievements.”

Want Done Achievement

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Thomas Mann

Novelist

“Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.”

Fate Achievement Triumph

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Sri Chinmoy

Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician

“I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.”

Goal Records Achievement

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Sri Chinmoy

Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician

“Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement.”

Reality Choices Achievement

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Stefan Zweig

Writer

“But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.”

Creative Knowledge Achievement

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Robert Winston

Physicist and Science Communicator

“It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.”

Real Animal Achievement

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