Accomplishment Quotes - Page 7

• Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Needs, Appetite

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• I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

  Cameron Diaz

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

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• Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

  Max Weber

  Today, Lifetime, Conscious

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• It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

  John C. Portman, Jr.

  Men, Rewards, Contribution

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• For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

  Georg Simmel

  Mean, Division Of Labor, Personality

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• Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Expression, Achievement

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• If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Success, Confidence

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• Little strokes fell great oaks.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, 4th Of July, Persistence

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.81

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• I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Desire, Ability, Ultimate

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• Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Organization, People

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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• Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.

  Yanni

  School, Mind, Way

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• If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positivity, Praise

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

  John Foster Dulles

  Motivational, Men, Details

  "Trump's Secretary of State pick: What every American should know about Rex Tillerson" by Robert Charles, www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2016.

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• If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.

  Vaclav Havel

  Needs, Driven, Capacity

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• What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Difficult Times, Sanity, Difficult

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• I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

  Julius Caesar

  Years, Long, Enough

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• I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Team, Home

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• The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.

  John Eliot

  Success, Meaningful, Sports

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• Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

  Chaka Khan

  Real, Degrees, Sesame Street

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• If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.

  Alcee Hastings

  Horse, Hard Work, Sound

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• Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Adventure

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• Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

  Danny Thomas

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Knowledge, People

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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