Accomplished Quotes

• No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

  Lee Iacocca

  Love, Family, Wise

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• Big things are accomplished when we master the little things.

  John Wooden

  Littles, Little Things, Bigs

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• Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

  Robert Byrd

  Iraq, President, Vices

  "One year later, Bush defends Iraq speech" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2004.

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

  Jim Carrey

  Selfish, Thinking, Sick

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• Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women". Book by Armand Eisen (p. 15), 1992.

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• The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

  Hillary Clinton

  Successful, Campaigns, Public Service

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• It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

  Joseph Conrad

  Blessed, Fog, Achievement

  1915 Victory, author's note.

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• Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

  Anita Desai

  Motivational, Disappointment, Book

  Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

  Henry Ford

  Happiness, Work, Inspiration

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

  James A. Garfield

  Radical, Crisis

  "The Diary of James A. Garfield: 1875-1877". Book by James Abram Garfield, 1983.

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• Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Superstitions, Mines, Superstitious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Decision

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• Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin

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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Leadership, Fun

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Progress, Action, Welfare

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• Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Literature, Tales

  "Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays".

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• Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Challenges, Black Racism, Discrimination

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• In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

  Bryant H. McGill

  People, Company

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• Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Love, Accomplishment, Virtuous

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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