Accomplishment Quotes - Page 26

• Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

  John Podhoretz

  Political, Victory, November

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• You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

  Aly Raisman

  Strength, Adversity, Good Day

  "Aly Raisman's Tips For Going After What You Want" by Macey Hall, www.seventeen.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Challenges

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.62, Penguin

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• I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Home

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• I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

  Curt Schilling

  Thinking, Consistency, Levels

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• Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

  Charles Schumer

  Jobs, Ideas, Trying

  Chuck Schumer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Airplane, Grandmother, Impact

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• He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Smile

  1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

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• Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

  Jane Smiley

  Hard Work, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  "With the benefit of foresight..." by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2002.

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• Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Government, Reform, World

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• A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

  Gwen Stefani

  Miracle, Knows, Hard

  "Gwen Stefani In Marie Claire: Singer Talks Marriage, Family". Marie Claire Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

  Ben Stein

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Triumph

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

  Eric Stoltz

  Independent, Glue, Bottles

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

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Boys, Political

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

  David Viscott

  People, Lists, Feels

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• I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

  Lech Walesa

  Funny, Science, Cycling

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• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  Orson Welles

  Experiments

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• When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

  Martin Filler

  Survivor, Oscars, Lasts

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• Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Identity, Mindset, Performances

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• All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

  Saul Bellow

  Imagination, Enough, Force

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  There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Achievement, Rewards And Recognition, Credit

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• I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Airplane

  "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

  Joseph Heller

  Determination, Rambling, Gone

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.

  Daniel Handler

  Ocean, Long, Swim

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