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Definition of Achievement
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

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

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
Gary Cooper

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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