Accomplishment Quotes

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world
Sir Walter Besant

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement
Carter, Jr.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings
Bronwyn Davies

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check
Mauritis Cornelius Escher

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
Jean Paul Getty

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe
Harry Gray

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day

What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language
James Earl Jones

Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion

The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan







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