Accomplished Quotes - Page 3

• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

  Sakya Pandita

  Goal, Working Together, Lions

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• Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Superstitions, Mines, Superstitious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin

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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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• I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

  John Bell Hood

  Sacrifice, Bravery, Soldier

  John Bell Hood (1996). “Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies”, p.58, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

  Jane Austen

  Knowing, Six, Wonder

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.33

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• Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

  Amelia Barr

  Sleep, Events, Littles

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.129, Litres

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• In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Prayer, Talking, Listening

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• Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Life, Finals, Form

  "The Irony of American History". Book by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1952.

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• I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo.

  Elias Koteas

  Thinking, Play, Quasimodo

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An accomplished man to his fingertips.

  Horace

  Men, Fingertips

  'Satires' bk. 1, no. 5, l. 32

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• Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.

  Dalai Lama

  Respect, Attitude, Long

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.172, Penguin Books India

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• Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Safety, Wish

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• I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

  John C. Reilly

  Names, People, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Achievement, Done, Proud

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• Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Fields, Possibility

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• Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Pain, Heart

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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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• Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Philosophical, Doctors, Years

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Aes Triplex'

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• I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

  Golda Meir

  Country, Working Together, Collaboration

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• My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.

  Alexander O'Neal

  Pursue, Ifs

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• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Leadership, Don't Give Up

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• Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Believe, Accomplishment

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.209, Basic Books

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