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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Confidence is a resolute state of mind by which you believe nothing is impossible.

Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.

Constant dropping wears away stones

Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

Donald Trump and Sean Spicer do one thing after another to keep the media attention focused on them. And it works. These legislative achievements are being made which are chipping away at anything the government has that's of any use to anybody. Paul Ryan, I think, is the most dangerous guy in the government. He knows what he's doing. And it's very systematic. I presume he's behind the cabinet appointments, but it's pretty amazing that every single cabinet appointment is somebody devoted to destroying that part of government.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

Discipline is the fuel of achievement.

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

Don't mistake movement for achievement.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

Education is inoculation against disruption.

Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a "creation," but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural condition. You come to see the evolution of the soul, the soul's journey, as a realization of what has always been there in the first place.

English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.