Accomplishment Quotations

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

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.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.

I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments.

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.

There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.

There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

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.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

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

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

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

Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

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

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

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.

Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything.

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

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

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

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

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

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

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

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

Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion. Once order is dissolved, it takes hard measures to restore it

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.