"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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"I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments."
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"The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience."
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"Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have."
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"Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success."
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"One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates."
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"In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages."
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"The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service."
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"Lately I feel the haters eatin' away at my confidence. They scream out my failures and whisper my accomplishments."
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"If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative."
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"I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic."
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"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
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"Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait."
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"Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be done in five days, perhaps less; and a younger generation will make a new route on the west face."
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"I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants"
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"Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace ."
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