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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Youth Lie Boy Ignorant

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You Boy Give He

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Things Just Did Along

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Life People Friend Important

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

Work History You Know

You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

Life Family Work Enjoy Life

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time Man Surprise Know

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Together Men Aim Voice

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

Calvin Coolidge

Business My Own Important Own

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Long Enough Years Lived

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

Benjamin Disraeli

You People Must Either

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Work Man Universe Stairs

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Work Future Truth Present

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

Live Country Priorities Real

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.

Gustave Flaubert

Life Success Future You

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Want Tennis Remembered

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Christopher Hitchens

Character Great High Moral

I'm not looking for 'outer esteem' anymore, what they call 'other esteem.' I'm looking for self-esteem. And people think that self-esteem is built with accomplishments. And, 'Hey, look what I did in my life.'

Lisa Lampanelli

Life My Life People Look

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

Knowledge People See More

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

Today Yesterday Were Impossibilities

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Orison Swett Marden

Best Achievement Man You

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

Walter Cronkite

History Man Moon Great

In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Best Dreams Tradition Matter

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Bryant H. McGill

Way Stand Small Your

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

Think I Think His Lot

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

You Matter Make Somebody

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