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The busier you are the more you can accomplish. (B. J. Adams)
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. (Thomas A. Bennett)
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. (Warren Bennis)
There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit. (Robert Brault)
"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders. (George P. Burnham)
I can never accomplish what I want – only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand. (Richard Diebenkorn)
When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done. (Ewing)
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. (Anatole France)
I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I can get going on my feelings of accomplishment. (Sara Genn)
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. (Arnold H. Glasgow)
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for. (Vaclav Havel)
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, / Old Time is still a-flying. (Robert Herrick)
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. (Elbert Hubbard)
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Helen Keller)
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A good many gifted people would accomplish more in life if thorns grew on laurels, so they would be harder to rest upon. (Rush Middlecombe)
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. (Ed Parker)
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater. It lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment. (Anna Pavlova)
How is this to be accomplished? Let all else go! (Plotinus)
Who begins too much accomplishes little. (German proverb)
We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. (Robert H. Schuller)
For an artist, any accomplishment is merely a minor victory over failure, and no more than a small step up the steep and tortuous path towards excellence. (Ian Semple)
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. (Samuel Smiles)
We know that whatever we do is simply a droplet in the ocean. But if that droplet were missing, the ocean would be lacking. (Mother Teresa)
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. (Margaret Thatcher)
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. (Thomas J. Watson, Sr.)
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. (Alfred North Whitehead)
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