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Achievement

«Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.»
«Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.»
Author: Brooks Hays | About: Achievement | Keywords: in-law, Mother in Law
«All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts»
«Accomplishments have no color»
Author: Leontyne Price | About: Achievement | Keywords: accomplishments
«All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.»
«Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Achievement, Difficulty | Keywords: accomplish
«Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.»
«All great achievements require time.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Achievement | Keywords: achievements, require
«Achievement brings its own anticlimax.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Achievement | Keywords: anticlimax
«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»