Accomplishment Quotes
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The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.
William James
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Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.
Jordan Knight
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Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.
Lao Tzu
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
Moliere
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It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.
William Shatner
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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
William Osler
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Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.
William Stanley Jevons
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The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.
Ernest Bramah
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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.
Emil Cioran
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That's been one of our goals from the beginning of the season and it would be a big accomplishment for this team. It's been in our sights the past couple of weeks and now it's here for us to have if we want it. It's just a matter of whether we can go out there and play football well enough.
Eli Manning
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One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.
Richard L. Evans
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Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.
John Podhoretz
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Settling for what is comfortable is one of the biggest enemies to our enlargement... In every season of life...we need to be committed to enlarging our personal capacity (even when it's not comfortable). We need to refuse to be satisfied with our latest accomplishments, as what we've accomplished is no longer our potential because it has been realized.
Christine Caine
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
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Bringing the astronaut's nightmare to life so vividly is a remarkable accomplishment but Alfonso and Jonas Cuaron want more than just the adrenaline ride - they're feeding our wonder and inviting us to think deeply about profound questions of existence.
Nick Sagan
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Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?
Basil Moreau
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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
John Milton
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Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything.
John Cena
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All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
Saul Bellow
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It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.
Charles A. Murray
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There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.
Cobie Smulders