Accomplish Nothing Quotes

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Pearl S. Buck

Life, Beautiful, Work

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Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

Life, Motivational, Success

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Muhammad Ali

Inspirational, Life, Success

Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown

Music, Dream, Teacher

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

Kindness, Character, Cost

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson

Motivational, Funny Life, Numbers

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It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Muhammad Ali

Motivational, Faith, Sports

Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Muhammad Ali

Greatness, Marketing, Cassius

Twitter post from Mar 28, 2010

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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, Self, Boss

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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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Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.

Benjamin Hoff

Children, Smart, Voice

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It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Muhammad Ali

Believe, People, Challenges

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Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

Robert McKee

Fuel, Crafts, Talent

Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.28, Harper Collins

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Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

Salvador Dali

Sex, Self, Expression

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Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.

Billy Graham

Prayer, Heart, Our Words

Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.285, Thomas Nelson Inc

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You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

Napoleon Hill

Procrastination, Should Have, Years

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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

Woodrow Wilson

Luxury, Excess, Defeat

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

Errol Morris

War, Perfect, Obscure

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It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

Friedrich Schiller

Fall, Hands, Giants

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Jesus didn't accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.

Bill Johnson

Jesus, Accomplish

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Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.

Joel Miller

Reality, Thinking, Oil

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My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.

Thomas Merton

Gratitude, Writing, Simple

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Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing.

Saint Peter

Blessed, Holy Eucharist, Passionate

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