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Quotes About Accomplishment

Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become. Such a tension is inherent in the human being and therefore is indispensable to mental well-being. We should not, then, be hesitant about challenging man with a potential meaning for him
~ Viktor E. Frankl
mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become. Such a tension is inherent in the human being and therefore is indispensable to mental well-being. We should not, then, be hesitant about challenging man with a potential meaning for him to fulfill. It is only thus that we evoke his will to meaning from its state of latency.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness.
~ Virginia Woolf
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents, and at the same time a grown woman coming to her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, 'This is what I have made of it! This!' And what had she made of it? What, indeed?
~ Virginia Woolf
Did you accomplish anything in your meeting with Kynan and Arik?" Limos, looking proud of herself, bobbed her head excitedly. "I broke Arik's ribs." Reaver exhaled on a deep sigh. "Anything else?
~ Larissa Ione
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
~ Larry Bird
To me, a winner is someone who recognizes their God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. Even when I lost, I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses into strengths.
~ Larry Bird
Success comes from what you do, not from what you say you are going to do.
~ Larry Winget
A smile spread across her face. "Score one for the rookie detective." Her
~ Laura Griffin
Effectiveness refers to successfully producing the expected or desired result; it's the degree to which you achieve your objectives, solve problems, and realize profits. In business, effectiveness is summed up by "doing the right things." Efficiency is the accomplishment of a job with the minimum expenditure of time, effort, and cost—the shortest distance between a goal and a checkmark. In business, efficiency is summed up by "doing things right.
~ Laura Stack
You could have a million ideas, but they're all worthless if you don't get them done.
~ Lauren Amarante
in 1434, Eannes finally accomplished what so many had said was impossible
~ Laurence Bergreen
way to earning a place in history. In the intervening months, he passed a series of tests
~ Laurence Bergreen
The feather put into his cap of having been abroad.
~ Laurence Sterne
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
~ Chanakya
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
~ Chanakya
My work had been successful. I cannot disclose the nature of the operation as the agency may have other work to do on it.
~ Charles A. Siringo
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Fourier believed the world would eventually contain thirty-seven million poets equal to Homer, thirty-seven million mathematicians equal to Newton, and thirty-seven million dramatists equal to Molière—although, he admitted, these were only "approximate estimates.
~ Charles D'Ambrosio
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.
~ Charles Dickens
It is indeed a much greater thing that I do now than I have ever done.
~ Charles Dickens
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done
~ Charles Dickens
The same interbeingness that makes us so immensely vulnerable also makes us immensely powerful. Remember this! Indeed, the vulnerability and the power go hand in hand, because only by relaxing the guard of the separate self can we tap into power beyond its ken. Only then can we accomplish things that are, to the separate self, impossible. Put another way, we become capable of things that we don't know how to "make" happen.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.
~ Charles F. Stanley