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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 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
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
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)
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
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
All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.
chanakya— Book I : "Concerning Discipline" Chapter 19
A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.
william stanley jevons— Chapter I, Introduction, p. 44
I had the endurance but not the brute strength that must be coupled with it. No woman has this combination. That's why I say none of my sex will ever accomplish that particular stunt.
annette kellerman— Of swimming the English Channel; "Into Fame and Fortune", in The American Magazine, Vol. 83 (1917), p. 34
You have by this time surely seen with your own eyes what your iron ships, with which you think you can accomplish wonders and on which you boast so much, can do against my junks; how one of them has been burned by one of my junks and has disappeared in smoke; how the others would have met with the same doom had they not taken to flight and gone out to sea.
koxinga— William Campbell (1903). Formosa under the Dutch: described from contemporary records, with explanatory notes and a bibliography of the island. Kegan Paul. p. 424. Retrieved on Dec. 20 2011. Original from the University of Michigan(LONDON : KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO. LTD DRYDEN HOUSE, 43 GERRARD STREET, SOHO MDCCCCIII Edinburgh : T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty)
The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.
charles a. reich— Chapter VIII : The Machine Begins To Self-Destruct, p. 189-190
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
ernest renan— Ch. 5 (Vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus) (1863))
In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.
felix adler— Section 4 : Moral Ideals
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
susan b. anthony— Speech on Social Purity (Spring 1875)
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.
Immanuel Kant— Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 52
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
john lancaster spalding— p. 24 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.
john lancaster spalding— p. 148 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work." John 4:34
— Dick Hillis (1913-2005), Missionary to Asia, Founder of OC International (formerly Orient Crusades)
I feel that I was made to complete things. To accomplish only a mass of beginnings and attempts would be to make a total failure of life. Perfection is the heritage with which my Creator has endowed me, and since this short life does not give completeness, I must have immortal life in which to find it.
— Randolph Sinks Foster, p. 338. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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.
— pp. 76-77 (They'd Rather Be Right (1954))
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.
— Kirby Page, Jesus or Christianity A Study In Contrasts (1929)
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
— Ginott, H. G. (1972). Teacher and child. New York: Macmillan.
Even the founders of Wikipedia had no clue when they started the project of what it would accomplish. They dug a hole to find water, and struck oil instead.
— Erik Zachte (Wikimedia Foundation data analyst), "Numbers and Strategy", July 24th, 2009.
