Accomplished Quotes - Page 25

• Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Strong, Inspiration, Exercise

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• The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

  John Calvin

  Needs, Scripture, Fool

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• On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Night, Romance, Brave

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1287, Delphi Classics

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• Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

  Barry Lyga

  Energy, Labels, Useless

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• All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

  Elihu Burritt

  Time, Ants, Facts

  Elihu Burritt (1846). “Sparks from the Anvil”, p.12

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• Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

  Carl Sandburg

  Faith, War, Men

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• Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

  Bradley Whitford

  Graduation, Hero, Leader

  Bradley Whitford's Commencement Address at University of Wisconsin-Madison in in Madison, Wisconsin, news.wisc.edu. May 15, 2004.

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• Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, History, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.3, CUP Archive

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• In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

  Simon Schama

  Illumination, History, Narrators

  Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax

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• Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

  Shinjo Ito

  Moving On, Letting Go, Ignorance

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.94

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• Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can't be accomplished.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Judging

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• Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

  James Madison

  Freedom, 4th Of July, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.64

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• Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Vision, Done

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Race

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.49, Jaico Publishing House

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• If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. . . . And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

  William H. McRaven

  Graduation, Encouragement, Morning

  Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.

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• Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

  William Osler

  Spiritual, Thinking, Overcoming

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.37, ACP Press

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• The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

  Alfred Adler

  Life, Work, Math

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• Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Attitude, Pride

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• Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Loss, Feel Good, Victory

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Ever notice how your senses are heightened when you are in challenging situations? You're experiencing an adrenaline rush that gives you extra energy.
  If you see every day as a challenge, you'd be surprised how efficient you can become, and how much can be accomplished.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• It feels amazing - really, really great! It was so nice to be out there and be cherished by all the people. It has been a great event, the best you can experience as an athlete. We are very happy with how everything has worked out in the competition. Everything was very good and we're really happy we accomplished our goal.

  Margaretha Sigfridsson

  Nice, Athlete, People

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• The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Science, Animal, Men

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• When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Boys, Player

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• No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.

  Theobald Smith

  Hard Work, Science, Accomplishment

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• After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Errors

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