Accomplish Quotes - Page 14

• Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

  Ginger Rogers

  Motivational, Dance, Average

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What one has to do usually can be done.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Encouraging, Work, Political

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Dad, Able

  Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.

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• They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

  Marco Rubio

  Mother, Dream, Dad

  Marco Rubio's Reply Speech to Barack Obama's State of The Union Address, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

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• No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

  George Sand

  Hands, Knowing, Humanity

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.7

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• Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Loss, Trying, Realization

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• It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

  John Shelby Spong

  Praying, Easy, Enough

  "Challenging the 'Sins of Scripture'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2005.

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• A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

  Barbra Streisand

  School, Men, Law

  "The Sexism in American Politics". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2016.

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• As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

  Taylor Swift

  Goal, Trying, Next

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• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Jobs, Cancer, Missions

  "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Wall, Lying, Trying

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

  Lil Wayne

  Accomplished

  The GQ Interview, www.gq.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

  George Will

  Political, Mediocrity, Politics

  "Embracing Your Inner Mediocrity: Making Peace with Reality". Book by Vince Stone, 2009.

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• Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  World, Social, Missions

  "Letter From Mark Zuckerberg". Letter to Facebook's shareholders, www.sec.gov. February 1, 2012.

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• Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.

  David A. Bednar

  Strong, Healing, Sick

  "That We Might “Not … Shrink” (D&C 19:18)". www.lds.org. March 3, 2013.

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• A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Believe, People, Google

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• Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

  Emile M. Cioran

  Accomplish Nothing, Strain, Dies

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• There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

  Larry King

  Destiny, Your Future, Your Destiny

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• I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

  Dorothy Parker

  Names, Nails, Fame

  Here Lies (1939) "The Little Hours"

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• If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dying, Unreal, Ifs

  Duino Elegies no. 4 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

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• What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Together, Useless

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• I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Sacrifice, Wish

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.52, Penguin

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• When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

  Greg Mortenson

  Mean, Kids, Done

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