Accomplishment Quotes - Page 3

• Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

  Patrick Macnee

  Long, Done, Accomplished

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. September 17, 2003.

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• Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Art, Lying

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Success, Courage, Work

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.15, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

  Bill Toomey

  Athlete, Feelings, Facts

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  Earl Warren

  Sports, Fear, Failure

  "The Norton Book of Sports". Book by George Plimpton, p. 470, 1992.

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• Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

  Alphonse Karr

  Love, Marriage, Beautiful

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• All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

  Ray Kroc

  Money, Mean, Pride

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

  James Payn

  Race, Example, Benefits

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

  Karl Jaspers

  Thinking, Self, Meditation

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• For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

  Michael Caine

  Heart, Fathom, My Own

  "Fictional character: Elliot". "Hannah and Her Sisters", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, Despise, Surpassing

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• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Self, Vision

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• Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

  John Steinbeck

  Work, Men, Wrath

  Grapes of Wrath (1939) ch. 14

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• I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

  Lee Trevino

  Thinking, Olympian

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• However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

  Jonathan Brandis

  Actors, Faces, Pretty Face

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• I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Hype, Bulls

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• I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Winning, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

  John Thorn

  Pride, Men, Bags

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• To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

  Anna Pavlova

  Lying, Words Of Wisdom, Secret

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• I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

  Joanna Baillie

  Running, People, Wish

  Joanna Baillie (1821). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.61

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• I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

  Mark Messier

  Thinking, Individual

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• Goal achievement is hero's work.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hero, Men, Goal

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.

  Herb Brooks

  Pride, Ice, Feelings

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