Accomplishment Quotes - Page 27

• People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

  Brian Tracy

  Work, Inspiration, Clear Goals

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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• The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Science, Toxic Waste

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.591, University of Arkansas Press

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• There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

  David Robinson

  Teamwork, Winning, Player

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• I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teacher, Determination, School

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.260, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.

  William Arthur Ward

  Spirituality, Accomplish, Spiritual Awareness

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• Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

  Rick Warren

  Impact, People, Religion

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 21, 2016

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• Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Adventure, Envy

  Samuel Johnson (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.199

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• If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dwarves, Long, Water

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• While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

  Eli Broad

  Success, Real, Hard Work

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• The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

  Alfred Adler

  Life, Work, Math

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• Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

  Gary Hamel

  Attitude, Aspiration, Great Accomplishment

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• The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

  Julia Cameron

  Humility, Pride, Scary

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.186, Souvenir Press

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• Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Sports, Athlete, Sweat

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• No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.

  Theobald Smith

  Hard Work, Science, Research

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• Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Sports, Excellence

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• Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Moving, Mean

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “The Sovereignty of God”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• Life is not a destination; it's a journey. It's not a series of goals; it's a series of steps, of events unfolding as you make your way. Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.

  Mike Hernacki

  Life, Journey, Goal

  Hernacki, Mike (2001). “The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want”, p.121, Pelican Publishing

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• Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.13, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Trying, Incentives

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• There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.

  Matthew Henson

  Men, Climbing, Self

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• People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  People, Goal, Achievement

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• As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Past, Giving

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

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• To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Play, Skills

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• An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

  James Mattis

  Military, Marine, Enemy

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