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• I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, School, Knowledge

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• Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  Francis Cabot

  Time, Flower, Garden

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• Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Enthusiasm For Life, Victory

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• Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

  Og Mandino

  Memorable, Giving, Accomplishment

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• It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Believe, Gymnastics, Opportunity

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• The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

  Ernest Hello

  Success, Giving Up, Moving

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• The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.

  George S. Patton

  Believe, Army, Done

  Letter to Frederick Ayers on May 05, 1943. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book by Martin Blumenson, p. 242, 1996.

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• Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Law, Alcohol

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Regret, Helping Others, Wish

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.64, Harmony

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• The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mean, Love Is, Fire

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• The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to it's limited in voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Effort, Mind, Body

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• Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

  Evita Peron

  Inspirational, Fanaticism

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• There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, Hopeful

  "Bush Renews Faith-Based Agenda Push". www.foxnews.com. June 01, 2004.

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• Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you should be proud of.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, White, Accomplishment

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• I don't think coaches should have to wear mic's. It is an invasion of privacy. We are trying to accomplish things, and wearing microphones may hinder development by straining the nature of relationships coaches and players have.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims.

  Bill Frist

  Strong, Creativity, Optimistic

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• Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

  Brian Tracy

  Achievement, Excellence, Ongoing

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• Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

  Confucius

  Badass, Goal, Wish

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• If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Opportunity, Light

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• It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiring, New Beginnings, Want

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• All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Accomplish Nothing, Self

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• We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

  George Matthew Adams

  Thinking, Addiction, Life Wisdom

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• It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Wish, Enough

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• God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue... He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, God, Able

  Max Lucado (2012). “Make Every Day Count - Teen Edition”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

  B. C. Forbes

  Appreciation, Often Can

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