Accomplishment Quotes - Page 38

• An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Excellence, Vision

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• For me, the hardest part of an injury is watching the races go by that I had hoped to compete in. The only thing that makes it easier is thinking of how certain struggles make other accomplishments mean so much.

  Dathan Ritzenhein

  Struggle, Mean, Thinking

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• We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have a knowledge that God lives and is in His Heavens and that His Son Jesus Christ has laid out a plan for us which will bring us and our loved ones eternal life if we are faithful. That life will be a busy, purposeful life with accomplishments and joys and development.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jesus, Commitment, Son

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• I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Past, Careers, Achievement

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• Traditions cannot themselves, simply with their own powers, do what needs to be done. These earlier experiences and accomplishments were dealing with other issues, providing guidance for different worlds than the world of the early twenty-first century.

  Thomas Berry

  Issues, Twenties, Different

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• Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.

  Bode Miller

  Winning, Pressure, Honestly

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• By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

  William Hazlitt

  Revenge, Suffering, Done

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.495

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• What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Land, Alive, Lambs

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• Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

  Peter Drucker

  Risk, Important, Promotion

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• Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.

  Larry Winget

  People, Done, Matter

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.5, Penguin

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• Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.

  Nicholas of Flue

  Special, Finding Happiness, May

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• My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Opposites, Games

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• The whole tape [Dedication 5] is amazing. It's my favourite accomplishment [working with Lil Wayne] and I say that with thought. It's the biggest accomplishment I've made today, because Lil Wayne is probably the biggest reason why I'm sitting here right now, rapping and doing what I do. I'm a huge Wayne fan forever.

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, Dedication, Forever

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• Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Art, Horse, Practice

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• Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Doe, Firsts, Sovereign

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.21, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible.

  Jennifer Morse

  Jobs, Disappointment, Priorities

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• I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others.

  Leonard Read

  Country, Believe, Feet

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• Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

  Timothy Keller

  Identity, Kind, Sin

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• Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Inspiring Others

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

  Don Henley

  Confused, Age, Fame

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• Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot.

  Brian Tracy

  Mean, Littles, Admiration

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 25, 2011

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• There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Fun, Snakes, People

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• It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.

  Lake Bell

  Careers, Voice, Profound

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

  Aldo Leopold

  Law, Tasks, Would Be

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• The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.

  Moliere

  Long, Projection

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