Accomplishing Something Quotes

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  I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

  Colonel Sanders

  Two, Feelings, Way

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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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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• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

  Freya Stark

  Past, People, Cracks

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• 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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• If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Leadership, Confidence, Courage

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• You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 09, 2013

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• I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Accomplish Your Goals, Accomplishment

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.166, Pelican Publishing

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• Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

  Albert Claude

  Men, Cells, May

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• Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

  Donald Trump

  Moving On, Success, Giving Up

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• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

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• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Business, Humorous

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• Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

  Eric Clapton

  Lying, Humor, Choices

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

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• The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Mean, Successful

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Williamsburg, Virginia, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself.
  Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.

  Bob Proctor

  Giving, Hook, Use

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 14, 2013

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• Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Hard Times, Way, Quiet

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change?

  Ivana Trump

  Life, Motivational, Sound

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• This is a really difficult question. Although I once thought that a dream and an accomplishment are the same thing, I've now changed my mind. A dream is not something you can just reach out to, so I've come to the conclusion that one can only achieve their dream by accomplishing something little by little.

  Bae Yong-joon

  Dream, Difficult Questions, Accomplishment

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• Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Stupidity, Should, Exciting

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• It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Accomplishment, Matter

  Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.98, Penguin UK

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• Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Believe, Men, Different

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• I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

  Steven Spielberg

  Crazy, Gun, Sharks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Source: www.justjared.com

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