Personal Accomplishment Quotes

#1. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.

Nigel Cumberland

#2. If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone

Stephen King

#4. Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. My desire to fight comes from within ... it's a personal journey of accomplishment, not meant to be judges or for me to judge others.

Cat Zingano

#6. But it has perks -- personal pride, financial security, and the feeling of accomplishment and control that comes when you just swap in a new toilet paper roll rather than resorting to fast-food napkins.

Kelly Williams Brown

#7. The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.

Isabel Allende

#8. Accomplishment of your dreams demand personal sacrifice and hard work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst is that you alone own the criticism and blame.

Ron Houston

#10. Where there is no vital community to hold up precious ethical and religious ideals, there can be no coming to a moral commitment - only personal accomplishment is applauded.

Cornel West

#11. They naturally thought that anyone who was good should have a very high rank.

Chris Kyle

#12. It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

#13. You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Sharon Stone

#14. The nobler type of man is broad-minded and not prejudiced. The inferior man is prejudiced and not broad-minded.

Confucius

#15. He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.

Bob Dylan

#16. If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#17. The nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no absolute morality, that moralities are sets of social conventions devised by humans to satisfy their needs.

Bertrand Russell

#18. A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

James Payn

#19. I honor, we honor the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.

Barack Obama

#20. And this all fits very well with the modern way of thinking about stuff in which all you need to do, in order to attain a sense of personal accomplishment and earn the accolades of your peers, is to demonstrate an ability to slot new examples of things into the proper intellectual pigeon-holes.

Neal Stephenson

#21. My preference is that of a salt-inclined palate over a sweet-craving one, but also one developed through reading, travel, and temperament.

David Tanis

#22. I laugh shakily. 'You're a little scary, Four.'
'Do me a favor,' he says, 'and don't call me that.'
'What should I call you, then?'
'Nothing.' He takes his hand from my face. 'Yet.

Veronica Roth

#23. First it was "The Silent Generation", then "Generation Boomers", then "Generation X", then "Generation Y" and as last "Generation Z".

Deyth Banger

#24. Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people ... For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.

John J. Gilligan

#25. Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

Georges Bataille

#26. I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Alan Shepard