Accomplishment Quotes - Page 29

• One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Real

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.7, Thomas Nelson

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• Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

  Og Mandino

  Passion, Frustration, Years

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

  Denis Waitley

  Pads, Launching

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• Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Enough, Individual

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• We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

  Michel Odent

  Lying, Thinking, Giving

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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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• I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Degrees, Clarity, Importance

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• It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .

  Kalakaua

  Successful, Important, Add

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• Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

  Robert Genn

  Power, Feelings, Common

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• The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

  Max Planck

  Hard Work, Science, Journey

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• There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Faith, Fear, Moving

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• To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

  William Osler

  Secret, Today, Tomorrow

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• Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Bravery, Parks

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• We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.

  Walter Cronkite

  Appreciation, Moon, Cities

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• Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Miracle

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• In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

  Lewis Thomas

  Real, Years, Records

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• Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Appreciation

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• My desire to fight comes from within... it's a personal journey of accomplishment, not meant to be judges or for me to judge others.

  Cat Zingano

  Fighting, Journey, Mma

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