Accomplishment Quotes
970 Accomplishment quotes by 707 unique authors
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The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to…
— David Herbert Donald
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Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for…
— Unknown Author
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Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
— Mark Steyn
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Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train…
— Michelle Huneven
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I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors. I could paint, too, and read, and recite;…
— Lotte Reiniger
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Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the…
— Paul Harvey
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We're all unique and we all have our own talents. If you keep acknowledging your assets and accomplishments , and strive to be the best…
— Jude Bijou
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No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
— Carol S. Dweck
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I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.
— Sarah Palin
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I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained, but…
— Amby Burfoot
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Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.
— Maria Montessori
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You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.
— John Wooden
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Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they…
— Diablo Cody
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When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the…
— Beverly Engel
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I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to…
— John F. Kennedy
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The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion…
— Gloria Steinem
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[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on…
— Greg Peterson
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Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only…
— Aldous Huxley
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To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.
— Saadi
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The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire…
— Bob Parsons
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I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone…
— Konrad Lorenz
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something ...
— Bernard Malamud
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I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the…
— Richard Avedon
Who Wrote These Accomplishment Quotes
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