Accomplishment Quotes - Page 22

• I am often surprised when I think to count my graces, for the more I count, the more there seem to be. And if pride in my accomplishments is the emotion that I naturally feel when I focus on my gifts, gratitude is the emotion I feel as I become aware of the many graces that have shaped me and my gifts.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Gratitude, Pride, Thinking

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• Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Character, Yield

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jul 24, 2015

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• God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

  Bob Goff

  Humble, Titles, Poor

  Twitter post from May 28, 2015

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• Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.

  Brian Tracy

  Focus, Activity

  Brian Tracy (2000). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.279, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Men, Thinking, Problem

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• Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

  Ned Rorem

  Gay, I Can

  Ned Rorem (2013). “An Absolute Gift: A New Diary”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Luck, Tag, Genius

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Puppet Masters”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved inwhat to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Encouragement, Jobs, Children

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• What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.67, David M Gross

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• There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Grace, Faults

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• Hillary Clinton's a highly intelligent woman, hard-working, she's dedicated her life to public service, but unfortunately, she does not have a track record of accomplishment or transparency. ... She's not the woman for the White House.

  Carly Fiorina

  Life, Hard Work, Intelligent

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• My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.

  Steve Goodier

  Hurt, Past, Mind

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• I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.

  Anne Sweeney

  Years, Personality, Effort

  "Anne Sweeney Named MIPCOM Personality of the Year" by Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "Writing away again in Margaritaville". Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June, 1998.

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• It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Taken, Important, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's not anything I can fix, change, make better its out to the world. I'd like to say that I like my records but it's for reasons other than enjoyment, it's more like a notch on my revolver, one more down. I am proud of my work, yes but its accomplishment to me and another year of schooling,in making records it can always be better!

  Shelby Lynne

  Years, Records, World

  Source: innocentwords.com

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• What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
  The years thunder by.

  Sterling Hayden

  Lying, Years, Pyramids

  "Wanderer". Book by Sterling Hayden, 1963.

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• The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing.

  Michael Card

  Letting Go, Giving, Special

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• Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.

  Maurice Sendak

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.

  Hugh Hefner

  Pride, Thinking, Dragons

  Source: nsarchive.gwu.edu

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• In the end, the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments.

  George Lucas

  Real, Hard Work, Kids

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Dad, Names, Way

  "Dweezil Zappa plays... whatever he wants". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. October 6, 2016.

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• I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Years, Careers

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Prayer, Smart

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, President, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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