Accomplished Quotes - Page 36

• Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

  Vincent de Paul

  Rose, Weakness, Thorns

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Spirit, Affair

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Suffering, Acting

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Small Numbers, Succeed

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Wish, Please

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Moving, Thinking

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• My dad told me he knew where to find Zay. Which meant I had to cooperate with him....Do you see what we have accomplished together? The healing of souls with the magic you carry. We have healed souls in death. With light and dark magic.We? No, you stuck your hands in my chest and stole my magic and threw it at them. If you try that again, you won't have hands. Where's Zayvion? Okay, maybe I was a little rusty on the whole cooperation thing.

  Devon Monk

  Dad, Healing, Dark

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• I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

  Cliff Martinez

  Bird, Owl, Musician

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• Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• When we were designing 'Mario Kart 64,' we wanted it to feel like the player is controlling an RC car. If you play this game and get this feeling, then we will be happy because we accomplished our goal.

  Hideki Konno

  Player, Mario Kart, Games

  Nintendo Power, Volume 92, January 1997.

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• Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.

  Larry Holmes

  Leadership, Sports, Commitment

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• It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Iraq, Lebanon

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• Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Growing Up, Cost, Fantasy

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.132, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death

  Isaac Asimov

  Memories, Forever, World

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Passion, Individuality, Desire

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.124, re.press

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• Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Self, Two

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.98, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

  Lennox Lewis

  Heavyweights, Scene, Hard

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• No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

  Chris Hadfield

  Sitting Down, Sitting

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.

  Richard Russo

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Richard Russo (2017). “Nobody's Fool”, p.386, Atlantic Books

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• To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.

  Richard Proenneke

  Jobs, Men, Giving

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• Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.

  Richard Schmid

  Use, Assuming, Talent

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• Not 'I don't give a f-' to just be reckless and do whatever, but 'I don't give a f- what they say.' … I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being. I'm happy with the man I'm becoming.

  Justin Bieber

  Artist, Men, Who I Am

  "Justin Bieber Reveals Will Smith Counsels Him Weekly in Rare, Raw Interview" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

  George Watsky

  Dream, Fall, Belief

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• I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

  Eric McCormack

  Years, Would Be, Shows

  "Whatever you Will" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.

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• Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Journey, Air

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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