Definition of Achievement

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Achievement

The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.

A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.

An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

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Achievement Quotations

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou

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

Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand

Achievement Translations

achievement in Italian is lavoro, realizzazione
achievement in Latin is adeptio, factum
achievement in Spanish is acabamiento, potencia, logro

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