Achieved Quotes
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When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.
Lao Tzu
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A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
Eyvind Johnson
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I am very proud of having won Oscar because I know what I put into it. I know that the people who voted for me voted because they thought I was the best at that time. It's a wonderful thing to look up there and see that you achieved something that your peers gave to you and appreciation for your work. That's most of all what I think about when I see the Oscar.
Ernest Borgnine
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Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.
Ezra Furman
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
Epictetus
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Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.
Ernest Van den Haag
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I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.
Ethan Hawke
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.
Ernst Mayr
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I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.
Brennan Manning
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That even if we're constantly tempted to lower our guard -- out of love, or weariness, or sympathy, or kindness-- we women shouldn't do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we have achieved.
Elena Ferrante
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If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
David Ambrose
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You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.
Anthony Robbins
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
Jules Verne
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As long as our independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.
Gaston Miron