#achievement

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#college #getting #greatest #high #high school

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#conquer #enemy #enlightened #foreknowledge #general

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#achievement #become #europe #europeans #forget

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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

— Winston Churchill

#ability #able #achievement #brilliant #marry

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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