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Accomplishment

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
Accomplishment

"Rejoice in the prosperity of others. When you feel contemptuous, or even a twinge of jealousy, toward the accomplishments or life-styles of others, you are harboring negativity where love must reside."

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Accomplishment

"Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Accomplishment

"I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden."

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Theobald Smith Microbiologist
Accomplishment

"No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
Accomplishment

"Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom."

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Stefan Zweig Writer
Accomplishment

"When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow."

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Accomplishment

"You have such a big responsibility. This person is still alive. You would think that they think highly of themselves and their accomplishments and what they've done. You can only hope to bring justice to that."

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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
Accomplishment

"Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment."

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Laozi Philosopher
Accomplishment

"The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them."

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Laozi Philosopher
Accomplishment

"Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Accomplishment

"Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned."

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