Extraordinary Achievement Quotes

• Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

  Matt Biondi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion

  "Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, 1971.

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• Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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• If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

  Nastia Liukin

  Basketball, Sports, Athlete

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012

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• Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Ambition, Achievement

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• The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

  Scott Belsky

  Achievement, Vision, Definitions

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.149, Penguin

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• This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

  Barack Obama

  War, Years, Achievement

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades we've taken for granted all of the extraordinary achievements of the post-war generation. You know, building this global alliance structure that has kept the peace across the North Atlantic since World War II. Building all of these institutions, building all this remarkable technology. And people have privatized. You know, you can now, you don't have to go outdoors much, the whole world comes to you.

  David Frum

  War, Taken, Past

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, People, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 28, 2013

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• The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

  James A. Baldwin

  Wall, Responsibility, Color

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• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  Chaz Brenchley

  Regret, Real, Rain

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• We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement

  Barack Obama

  War, Home, Government

  Remarks by the President and First Lady on the End of the War in Iraq, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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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 biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Character, Two

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• If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.

  William J Doherty

  Children, Couple, Achievement

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• What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

  Michael Pollan

  Civilization, People, Sick

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.11, Penguin

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• Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Art, Mean, Achievement

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