You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
A great accomplishment shouldn’t be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration and expectation.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
There’s nothing wrong with being happy about an accomplishment, but beware of the pitfalls of too much praise and adulation.
It is fine to achieve your accomplishments and savor your victories, but there is not enough time in life to reason your laurels for long.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
Legally we have integration, social acceptance and diversity… but that doesn’t mean… everybody is down with it.
I don’t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you’re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
I think it’s important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.