Accomplishment Quotes - Page 33

• People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  People, Goal, Achievement

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• As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Past, Giving

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

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• To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Play, Skills

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• An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

  James Mattis

  Military, Marine, Enemy

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• I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Degrees, Clarity, Importance

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• In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Reality, Men, Deceit

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• The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

  R. G. LeTourneau

  Greatness, Achievement, Joy

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• The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.

  Tim Frick

  Single Mom, Joy, Movement

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• A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Brother, Hate, Book

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  Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.

  Grant Cardone

  Trying, Chance, Spending

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Dec 03, 2016

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• I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.

  Bill Gates

  Judging, People, Humanity

  Remarks of Bill Gates, Harvard Commencement, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Easy, Politeness, Profitable

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• In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.

  Greg Reid

  Ends

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• I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Exercise, Reflection, Winning

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• If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do

  Kanye West

  Should, Ask Me, Asks

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• We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.

  Stedman Graham

  Heart, Goal, Choices

  Stedman Graham (2002). “Build Your Own Life Brand!: A Powerful Strategy to Maximize Your Potential and Enhance Your Value for Ultimate Achievement”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot be to wedded to your past accomplishments.

  Mark Schaefer

  Past, Your Past, Our Past

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• Quantum Leap Thinking [is] an opportunity to get our energy out and target it in the direction of great productivity, leaving us with a feeling of accomplishment.

  Leon Tec

  Opportunity, Thinking, Leaving

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• Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.

  Wayne Muller

  Responsibility, Needs, Done

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• Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

  Jim George

  Commitment, Levels, Majors

  Jim George (2008). “A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters”, p.7, Harvest House Publishers

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• I'm thankful for my time with Nintendo and proud of our team's accomplishments in growing the Nintendo audience. I look forward to watching the continued growth of the Nintendo brand in the years ahead.

  Cammie Dunaway

  Team, Years, Growth

  "Cammie Dunaway Leaving Nintendo" by jum Reilly, www.ign.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2016

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• Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.

  Joel Osteen

  Hurt, Disappointment, Mistake

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• It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .

  Kalakaua

  Successful, Important, Add

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• Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

  Robert Genn

  Power, Feelings, Common

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