Accomplishment quotes
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"Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation."
"The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?"
"George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."
"Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments."
"An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise."
"The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment."
"Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints."
"The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first."
"Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted."
"The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs."
"There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them."
"If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment."
"Accomplishment begins with two words: 'I'll try.'"
"Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government."
"I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you."
"Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning."
"The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs."
"To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment."
"Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment."
"The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision."
