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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
edmund hillary— Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet, this appears to have originated as a quote about him in a Rolex advertisement.
It is intended that we shall accomplish all, through law, that we can accomplish for ourselves. God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.
josiah gilbert holland— P. 367. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Do not attempt to accomplish greater results by a greater effort of your little understanding, but by a greater understanding of your little effort. The greater your understanding of the power within yourself, the less effort you need to make in order to achieve.
— Walter Russell, THINK - IBM Lecture Series.
To accomplish anything whatsoever one must have standards. None have yet accomplished anything without them.
mozi— Book 1; On the necessity of standards
The underlying point held; experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
iain banks— Chapter 4 “Temple of Light” (p. 96)
The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.
john allen fraser— Preface, p. xi
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten ) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.
asger jorn— As quoted in On the Passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: the Situationist International, 1957-1972 (1989), edited by Elisabeth Sussman, p. 142
Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of.
tom delay— As reported from "Late Edition" on CNN 1997 April 6
A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.
chauncey depew— My Memories of Eighty Years (1922), p. 318
There are people in what we call 'deep state,' meaning these guys have wormed their way into power in the Obama years and before and have their own political agenda. And they’re utilizing every bit of leverage that they’ve got to accomplish their mission.
Dana Rohrabacher— Cheney, Kyle. "Rep. Rohrabacher: Indictment of NRA-linked Russian is 'stupid'." Politico, 17 July 2018
I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.
chuck norris— American martial artist
Foras therain cometh down, and thesnow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and makethit bring forthand bud, that it maygiveseedtothe sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Bible (Old Testament)— Isaiah 55:10-11.
Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something.
— As quoted in How to Think Like Einstein : Simple Ways to Break the Rules and Discover Your Hidden Genius (2000) by Scott Thorpe, p. 124
What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.
jonathan edwards— P. 541. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny jobs unimpeded.
judy lamarsh— CHAPTER 3, The truth squad, p. 36
My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!
judy lamarsh— CHAPTER 11, The leadership scramble, p. 351
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
beverly sills— As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
Edmund Burke— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 261.
The public wants miracles. The public demands miracles; and if one source ceases to provide them, they will turn to another source which seems to accomplish the spectacular. Even while they resented and opposed the scientific attitude, they lapped up the miracles which this attitude accomplished with glee.
mark clifton— pp. 76-77 (They'd Rather Be Right (1954))
The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who "reduced to absurdity" "the wisdom of this world" (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah that is essentially Jewish .
friedrich nietzsche— Sec. 47' (Helen Zimmern translation)
If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -"favoriser", Fr.) his self-control.
african spir— p. 50 [Spir rejected ascetism: for it is "opposed to sound reason to unnaturally impose onself extreme hardships"- Esquisse biographique, p. 32
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
alexis de tocqueville— Book Three, Chapter XXII
In our eyes , individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their own powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes toward a great avenger and liberator who someday will come and accomplish his mission.
— Why Marxists oppose Individual Terrorism, article published in the Austrian Social Democratic paper Der Kampf (1909).
Those persons who were responsible for his tragic death had only the faintest understanding of what he was seeking to accomplish. Even his own disciples so completely misinterpreted his teaching that at the very end they argued among themselves as to who should have the chief places. ...they still visualized twelve thrones of solid gold and quarreled among themselves over the seats of honor on the right and left of the king. How much less able to fathom the meaning of his words and deeds were the ecclesiastical leaders.
— p.23-24 (Jesus or Christianity A Study in Contrasts (1929))
It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
The Weeknd— Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer.
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Marden Orison swett— In: Canaan Mashonganyika “It's Do-able!: Power to Unleash Your Dream”, p.125
