Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
Accomplishment quotes
Accomplishment
618 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"To accomplish much you must first lose everything."
Allen Ginsberg
Poet, Activist
"…we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment (Sunflower Sutra)"
Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you."
Denzel Washington
Actor, Director
"At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23)."
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"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."
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"I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy."
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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 more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied."
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"Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit."
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"High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments."
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"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
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"The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection."
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"The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet."
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"Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments."
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"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
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"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory."
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"Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis."
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"Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude."
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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."
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"So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments"
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"Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time."
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"Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy."
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"All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!"
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"Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind."
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"Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press."
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