Accomplishment Quotes - Page 14

• Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

  Alfie Kohn

  People, Healthy, Risk

  Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

  James Ellis

  Practice, Important, Refinement

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• Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Discovery, Mind, Fusion

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Meaningful, Running, Clarity

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• Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

  Earl Nightingale

  Years, Effort, Periods

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• Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

  Andy Stanley

  May, Raises, Greatest Accomplishment

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• Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only us, each moment shaping who we are, into what we will become.

  Cynthia Hand

  Events, Purpose, Earth

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• The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to the resources available to us in Christ. We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God's tasks. This is the law of grace. When we recognize it is impossible for us to perform a duty in our own strength, we will discover the secret of its accomplishment.

  John Owen

  Law, Grace, Secret

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• So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments

  Dale Carnegie

  Interesting, Enjoy, Good Conversation

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

  Adam Gopnik

  Adults, Relief, Professional Competence

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Perfect, Feelings

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.32, New World Library

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• The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Doe

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• Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

  George S. Clason

  Strong, Desire, Definite

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that.

  Cathy Rigby

  Girl, Teamwork, Real

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect". abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's not about being in a community where you feel safe or enjoying the cachet of being a 'Buddhist.' It's not even about accumulating teachings, empowerments, or 'spiritual accomplishments.' It's about how naked you're willing to be with your own life, and how much you're willing to let go of your masks and your armor and live as a completely exposed, undefended, and open human person.

  Reginald Ray

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• We are not these bodies; we're neither our accomplishments nor our possessions—we are all one with the Source of all being, which is God.

  Anita Moorjani

  Body, Source, Possession

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to Be Me”, p.11, Hay House, Inc

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• Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

  Teresa Amabile

  Winning, Track, Small Wins

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• To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

  Charles Bukowski

  Worthy, Seems, Ifs

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• You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

  Brian Tracy

  Levels, Ability, Right Now

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 15, 2013

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• Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

  Brian Tracy

  Essentials, Willpower, Worthwhile

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.32, John Wiley & Sons

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• Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Mother, Father

  Zig Ziglar (1993). “Ziglar on Selling: The Ultimate Handbook for the Complete Sales Professional of the Nineties”, Ballantine Books

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• I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Successful, Frustration

  "Tony Robbins: Unleashing the Power". Success Interview, www.success.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Celebrate each accomplishment on your way to reaching your goal. Each challenge conquered whether large or small is a positive step to greatness.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Greatness

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• The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.

  Erick Erickson

  Media, Rallying Cry, Carbon Emissions

  Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.

  Anthony W. Ivins

  New York, Mean, Simple

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