Accomplish Quotes - Page 16

• The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  "The 11 Rules Of Life" by Evelyn Pelczar, www.elitedaily.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Singing

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.190, Penguin

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• You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

  E. M. Forster

  Accomplishment, Intention, Chairs

  E. M. Forster (2015). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.118, Booklassic

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• I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Pigs, Self

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sleep, People, Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.

  Polly Horvath

  Support, Healthy, Earth

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• Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

  Holly Black

  Funny, Sweet, Coffee

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• Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your power is limitless. You can accomplish anything you wish to accomplish. -President Gordon B. Hinckley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Moving On, Strong, Jesus

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• It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

  Ann Druyan

  Powerful, Humility, Reality

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• And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Thinking, Nfl

  "The last lecture".

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• To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Excellence, Outstanding, Heard

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• The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Accomplish Nothing, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.

  Sylvia Browne

  War, Tired, Thinking

  Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison (2010). “End Of Days: Predictions and prophecies about the end of the world”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

  Steve Pavlina

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dark, Hands, Cry

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

  Jean Webster

  Believe, Moving, Mountain

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.93, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To exercise faith is to trust that the Lord knows what he is doing with you and that He can accomplish it for your eternal good even though you cannot understand how He can possibly do it...Your Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son love you perfectly.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Love You, Son

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• It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.

  E. M. Forster

  Mean, Men, Names

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

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• But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Evil, Cold

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.

  Yukio Mishima

  Loss, Dark, Clouds

  "Runaway Horses".

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• love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Strong, Couple, Commitment

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 30, 2012

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• It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life.' Suddenly ashamed of my conspicuous poverty, I lowered my eyes. But Scatha placed a hand beneath my chin and raised my head. 'Cling too tightly to your life and you will lose it, my Reluctant Warrior. You must become the master of your life, not its slave.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Eye, Warrior, Men

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• No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

  Matsuo Basho

  Lying, Passion, Matter

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• But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us.

  Garth Stein

  Children, Heart, Past

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• Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.

  John Cheever

  Art, Exercise, Choices

  John Cheever (2010). “Collected Stories”, p.549, Random House

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