Quotes About Accomplishing Nothing

#1. If you rely on others to accomplish something in life, you'll end up accomplishing nothing.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#2. You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

Lauren DeStefano

#3. Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.

Robert Torricelli

#4. Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined
with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Alexander Theroux

#5. Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state of accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order.

Kevin Hooyman

#6. Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

Jean Kerr

#7. In my experience, there's no secret to accomplishing almost any goal worth pursuing.

Lauren Graham

#8. Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

Alfie Kohn

#9. I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

Andy Grove

#11. I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a hostile thing to do.

Jamey Johnson

#12. Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will.

Will Smith

#13. The first step in accomplishing any goal was deciding that it was possible.

Tom Clancy

#14. Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.

Chuck Smith

#15. It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.

M. Stanton Evans

#16. who achieve great things that the world will never forget, start out by accomplishing small things that the world will never see.

Bob Burg

#17. It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

Ken Robinson

#18. I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

#19. My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.

Michael Hersch

#20. Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Mother Teresa

#21. Why bother lifting weights if you aren't following a sound nutritional regimen? Sure, it may be fun, but are you really accomplishing anything?

Robert Cheeke

#22. Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!

Michelle Kwan

#23. This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

Origen

#24. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything - not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.

Pema Chodron

#25. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. As the activities of the wise man exist only in the eyes of others and not in his own, although he may be accomplishing immense tasks, he really does nothing.

Ramana Maharshi

#27. Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#28. All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias.

Demi Lovato

#29. I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.

Angelina Jolie

#30. Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Bill Shuster

#31. When confronted with life's obstacles... wreck everything in your path with deliberate intent on accomplishing your goals.

K.J. Folk

#32. Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried

Terry Fox

#33. I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

Steven Spielberg

#34. Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

John Green

#35. It's not God's great love that falls short in accomplishing redemption of nations

Sunday Adelaja

#36. With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

James Gleick

#37. Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person."
"I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said.
"It is today.

Jim Butcher

#38. Accomplishing the impossible is all about seeing the invisible.

Steven Furtick

#39. I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.

Zach Braff

#40. There was a moment in time where I was really focused on the Navy and I followed through with it - I passed the test. I was happy with myself because I was accomplishing something and I was really working towards a goal. That was the first true thing I invested my energy in.

Kid Cudi

#41. Here in France, you must practice the art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. (in the John Adams miniseries on HBO)

Benjamin Franklin

#42. There's a season for everything under the sun, except for seasons of nothingness. You should always be moving forward in life; achieving, accomplishing, and doing!

Dwaun S. Cox

#43. These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

Herodotus

#44. To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.

Oscar Milosz

#45. Worrying is like a dominoes effect, that rolls from one day into the next, into a week, a month, a year;
never accomplishing anything but stress, until it hits that last tile, which drops unfulfilled to an empty ground.

Anthony Liccione

#46. I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

Jessamyn West

#47. Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

Peter Drucker

#48. There is no purpose for Christian scholarship outside the purpose of God that He is accomplishing in the church.

James R. White

#49. Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill
that is strength!

Victoria Hanley

#50. I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

John Frusciante