Great Achievement Quotes - Page 7

• It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fate, Achievement, Orthodoxy

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Grateful, Independent, Acceptance

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

  Alan Lightman

  Determination, Achievement, Age

  "Reunion". Book by Alan Lightman, www.nytimes.com. 2003.

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• The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

  George W. Bush

  Dark, People, History

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it.  They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

  Orison S. Marden

  Real, Simple, Thinking

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• The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Civilization, Achievement

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

  Gary W. Keller

  Focus, Achievement, Results

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• I am very optimistic about - about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

  Joe Biden

  Summer, Moving, Optimistic

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• I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Moon, Thinking, Achievement

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• Some people reckoned up all King Harald's (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him. But there were others who said that England would be very hard to conquer. It was very populous and the warriors who were known as the king's Housecarls were so valiant, that any one of them was worth two of the best in King Harald's army

  Snorri Sturluson

  Kings, Warrior, Army

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• Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Art, Pain, Successful

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• What NATO troops are doing in Afghanistan is to train, assist and advise Afghans, but they are actually doing the fighting. They are actually taking the responsibility for the security in their own country. And that is a great achievement, compared to what we saw just a few years ago, when NATO troops had to conduct the combat operations fighting the Taliban.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Country, Responsibility, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just like everything else in our lives, with the good comes the bad. It applies to success as well. Success isn't a destination, it's a journey - a journey that will be sure to come with lots of great achievements and lots of setbacks. You have the power to decide if those downsides are going to define you in a negative way or a positive way.

  Lizzie Velasquez

  Journey, Achievement, Negative

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Achievement, Use

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

  Eric Butterworth

  Strong, Average, Achievement

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• It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something.

  Zach Braff

  Blow, People, Achievement

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• Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.

  Nyanaponika Thera

  Simple, Average, Achievement

  Nyanaponika Thera (2005). “The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipaṭṭhāna : a Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, with an Anthology of Relevant Texts Translated from the Pali and Sanskrit”, p.25, Buddhist Publication Society

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• Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wisdom, Home, Reality

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• Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This is the crucial role. Followers judge leaders. Only if the leaders pass that test do they have any impact. The potential followers, if their judgment is poor, have judged themselves. If the leader takes his or her followers to the goal, to great achievements, it is because the followers were capable of that kind of response.

  Garry Wills

  Impact, Goal, Judging

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

  Francoise Sagan

  Happiness, Achievement

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Christian Inspirational, Achievement

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• Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kindness, Spring, Numbers

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Scandal in Spring”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Achievement, Feelings

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.93, Penguin

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• The label of 'marathoner' has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled or tiptoed. When you cross that finish line, you've entered an elite group. About one-tenth of one percent of the population has done it. Don't let anyone take that great achievement away from you.

  Jeff Galloway

  Distance, Achievement, Groups

  Jeff Galloway (2000). “Marathon”

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• We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  God, Faith, Religious

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