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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.