Accomplishment Quotes

• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017

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• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ambition

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• Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.

  Ayanna Howard

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

  Frank A. Clark

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Boys, Giving, Mastery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.406, Рипол Классик

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• Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Mistake, Joy

  "Childhood and Society". Book by Erik Erikson, 1950.

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• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

  Chris Evert

  Life, Sports, Attitude

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• Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

  Helen Hayes

  Stay Strong, Self, Hiking

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield

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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Temporary Defeat

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• In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Nature, Miracle, Green Trees

  "The Wisdom of Wilderness". Life magazine, December 22, 1967.

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• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

  Ed Parker

  Success, Learning, Intelligent

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• As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Political, I Am Strong

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

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• Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Art, Lying

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Success, Courage, Work

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.15, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

  Bill Toomey

  Athlete, Feelings, Facts

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  Earl Warren

  Sports, Fear, Failure

  "The Norton Book of Sports". Book by George Plimpton, p. 470, 1992.

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• In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

  Michael Lewis

  Mother, Children, Japan

  Michael Lewis (1995). “Shame: The Exposed Self”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

  James Forrestal

  Russia, Poison, World

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• Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

  Patrick Macnee

  Long, Done, Accomplished

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. September 17, 2003.

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• The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Success, Failure

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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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