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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
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. -- Jim Rohn
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. -- Norman Vincent Peale
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. -- Thomas A. Edison
Never mistake activity for achievement. -- John Wooden
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. -- Maxwell Maltz
Accomplishment begins with two words: 'I'll try.' -- Abbey Curran
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy. -- Isaac Newton
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal. -- Yip Man
Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances. -- Ralph Marston
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry S. Truman
Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. -- Mary Lou Retton
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. -- Frank A. Clark
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. -- Charles Lindbergh
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. -- Ed Parker
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. -- Sidney Blumenthal
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow. -- Maurice Sendak
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing. -- Albert Bandura
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
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
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
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. -- Nikola Tesla
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. -- Gustave Flaubert
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. -- Mary Astell
Pain is Temporary, Quitting Lasts Forever. -- Lance Armstrong
Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything. -- John Cena
The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God. -- Manny Pacquiao
Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment. -- Jordan Knight
It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward. -- John Portman
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. -- Vince Lombardi
Grinding trying to get my goals accomplished because nothing in this world is ever promised. -- G-Eazy
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward. -- Harvey Mackay
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side. -- Martin Seligman
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. -- David S. Rose
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. -- Arnold H. Glasow
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment. -- Martin Seligman
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. -- Thomas Carlyle
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
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
It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need. -- Tyler Perry
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might -- Charles H. Spurgeon
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
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
I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger. -- George W. Bush
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
A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment - clear achievement that we don't necessarily get from real life. In a game, you've beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn't like that, right? -- Jesse Schell
P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard. -- Martin Seligman
I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better. -- Jennifer Lopez
When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Never confuse activity with accomplishment. -- John Wooden
Team spirit promotes greater accomplishment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Divine mission.Divine strength.Divine accomplishment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. -- Heywood Hale Broun
man equate their self-esteem with accomplishment -- Barbara de Angelis
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. -- Thomas Carlyle
The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence . -- Jim Rohn
Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment. -- Wilbur L. Creech
A prayer without faith is without accomplishment -- Smith Wigglesworth
If there is effort, there is always accomplishment. -- Kano Jigoro
Being both stupid and ignorant is an accomplishment. -- Gene Weingarten
You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment. -- John Wooden
To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment. -- L. Frank Baum
There is a price to pay for accomplishment. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment. -- Isla Fisher
Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment. -- John Podhoretz
It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life. -- Jerome Bettis
TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT. -- John C. Maxwell
God gives life, strength and wisdom for every accomplishment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment. -- Wayde Goodall
Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile. -- Brian Tracy
Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment. -- Pau Gasol
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment. -- Ray Kroc
The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is. -- R. G. LeTourneau
My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.' -- Brittany Snow
Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment. -- John C. Maxwell
I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment. -- Shannon Miller
Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment. -- Mary MacKillop
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment. -- Francis Bacon
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. -- Michael Korda
My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on "The Guiding Light". -- Brittany Snow
Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment. -- Robert Genn
Faith gives you confidence, strength and hope; vital for any accomplishment -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. -- Orson Welles
Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. -- George S. Clason
Poor parents tend to follow[...] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth". -- Malcolm Gladwell
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment. -- Stefan Zweig
Poor parents tend to follow[] a strategy of accomplishment of natural growth. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns. -- Werner Erhard
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment. -- Abby Sunderland
Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment. -- J. K. Rowling
Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment. -- Vanna Bonta
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort -- Daniel Goleman
My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment. -- Orson Welles
Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment. -- Zig Ziglar
Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process. -- Lawrence M. Miller
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. -- Emile M. Cioran
The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment. -- Sylvia Plath
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. -- William Wordsworth
I think just getting a movie done is an accomplishment in itself. -- John C. Reilly
Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader. -- John C. Maxwell
Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it. -- Padma Lakshmi
And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment. -- Marie Corelli
Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment. -- Jim George
Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment. -- Margaret Caroline Anderson
The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment. -- Amy Poehler
Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective. -- Janet Frame
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise. -- Andy Stanley
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside. -- Robert Payne
Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude. -- Zig Ziglar
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism. -- George Bernard Shaw

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