Accomplished Quotes - Page 20

• Nothing can be accomplished without love.

  Henri Matisse

  Without Love

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• Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Tasks, Easy

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• She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Grief, Grateful, Past

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.432, Macmillan

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• Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

  John Henry Newman

  Sacrifice, Break Through, Cost

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• Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

  Nora Ephron

  Real, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 02, 2012

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• ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

  William P. Young

  Kindness, Heart, Forgiving

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• Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

  Henry Miller

  Voyages

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Nature, Science, Law

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1916). “New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen”

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• On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Change, Nature, Science

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• I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Accomplishment, Effort

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• In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils."

  Eric Temple Bell

  Seven Years, Order, Abel

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

  Andre Maurois

  Song, Drama, Flower

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• When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

  Muhammad Ali

  Positive, Men, Suggestions

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• The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.

  Walter Russell Bowie

  Dream, Men, Ability

  Walter Russell Bowie (1931). “On Being Alive”

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• We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be accomplished through a separate course in morality or ethics. I am convinced, however, that values are sustained on campus by the honesty of our words, and by the confidence we have in the words of others.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Honesty, Teaching

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• Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

  Abraham Maslow

  Encouragement, Character, Smoking

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• There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Believe, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.201, Lulu Press, Inc

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• And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Future, Positive Attitude

  "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Selections Annotated & Explained".

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• The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted with care in order to form a perfect union of the powdered cement, sand and water. This can be best accomplished by the use of the New England corn hoe on a board floor or by beating with a hand stamper; not much labour is required if properly applied. Mechanics can judge when the mixture is perfect by the appearance of the mortar, which, when properly prepared, very much resembles putty.

  Canvass White

  Engineering, Hands, Order

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• I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

  Cissy Houston

  Daughter, Mother, Wonderful Person

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• If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something.

  Walter Payton

  Running, Mean, Best Effort

  "Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton".

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• Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

  Jack Lovelock

  Motivational, Running, Race

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• The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening.

  Linda S. Reeves

  Spiritual, Prayer, Home

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• When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

  Laozi

  Goal, Heaven, Taoism

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• Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

  Laozi

  Humble, Pride, Perfect

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