Top 100 Quotes About Accomplishments
#1. Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. - LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003
Ray Kurzweil
#2. Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
Wilkie Collins
#3. Self-confidence and self-will are strength for sacred accomplishments.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#4. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#5. That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.
Lesley Visser
#6. 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
#7. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. It doesn't matter how long you're here for, or what accomplishments you have, it matters what you do with that time and the type of person that you are.
Joel T. McGrath
#9. The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
Quentin Crisp
#10. High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Christopher Hitchens
#11. Dr. Peggy McIntosh from the Wellesley Centers for Women, gave a talk called "Feeling Like a Fraud."1 She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments.
Sheryl Sandberg
#12. Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.
Timothy Keller
#13. And there is the fallacy of existence: the idea that one would be happy forever and aye with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
Sylvia Plath
#14. Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures.
T.D. Jakes
#15. Unfortunately, accomplishments do not reduce internalized shame. In fact, the more one achieves, the more one has to achieve. Toxic shame is about being; no amount of doing will ever change it.
John Bradshaw
#16. Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically
John C. Maxwell
#17. Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!
Bryant McGill
#18. Grow taller than your failures; never give up. People who are content with where they are will never be passionate about making greater accomplishments in their lives.
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.
Michel De Certeau
#20. Yes Serge has killed a lot of people , but let's not overlook all of his other accomplishments.
Tim Dorsey
#21. It is perseverance that leads to great accomplishments.
Sunday Adelaja
#22. I Might never find that love my heart has always desired, but I know I will succeed before I die.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#23. Self-confidence and self-will are the strength for a sacred accomplishments.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. When you begin to reason with the Lord, your attitude to the issues of life will change.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#25. A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
John Foster Dulles
#26. If life is hard and we don't celebrate the small accomplishments, what's left?
Shawn Goodman
#27. Winners in life visualize their success and look forward to reaping and enjoying the rewards of their accomplishments. They revel in their hard-earned victory, and that reinforces their superior level of self-confidence.
Lorii Myers
#28. Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.
Marvin J. Ashton
#29. I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
Arthur Ashe
#30. Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#31. The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.
A.J. Darkholme
#32. How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#33. I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.
Rita Dove
#34. Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.
Jack Kornfield
#35. He didn't see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.
Kenneth Eade
#36. Unlike Hillary Clinton, I am not afraid to answer questions about my track record or my accomplishments or my principles,
Carly Fiorina
#38. I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
Joanna Baillie
#39. I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#40. By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.
Debbie Ford
#41. I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a ... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
Lee Daniels
#42. Let him go. Let one of them go. Knowing it and doing it, two separate
accomplishments. Let one man go. The question had to be, which one?
Megan Hart
#44. A man may be a Jew, a nobleman, a tramp, or a chimneysweep," Ossip said softly, "but as long as he is proud of his accomplishments, he will be honored to be called a man.
Monique Raphel High
#45. The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
Michael Korda
#46. I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
Alan Shepard
#47. Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.
Bruce Beutler
#48. A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#49. the knowledge, tastes, and social accomplishments of 13-year-olds are often the same as those of 28-year-olds. Adolescents are precociously adult; adults are permanently adolescent.
Theodore Dalrymple
#50. I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.
Heber J. Grant
#51. I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.
Brian Boitano
#52. The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
John Thorn
#54. I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, 'Wow.'
Richelle E. Goodrich
#55. Creative thinking encompassed by the Word of God infuses into you the divine ability to turn the seemingly ugly situation around.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#56. Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.
Ayanna Howard
#57. To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan ... believe ... act!
Alfred Montapert
#58. Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.
Paul D. Boyer
#59. The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.
George Eastman
#60. I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.
Bobby Orr
#61. There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.
Charles Dudley Warner
#62. So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments. Remember
Dale Carnegie
#63. Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.
Eric Alterman
#64. A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#66. My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
Park Geun-hye
#67. Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.
John Calvin
#68. No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.
H.W. Charles
#69. A life in which people know that our accomplishments could not have been attained by our own power. A life that brings glory to God in heaven.4
Francis Chan
#70. A person with a healthy self-esteem is comfortable in discussing matters of accomplishments and even failures or shortcomings.
John Mind
#71. Often individuals whose mental gifts so far outpaced their contemporaries, tended to lack the social graces commensurate with their other accomplishments.
Kirsten Beyer
#72. Luxuries and indulgences were distractions from true greatness, tawdry and ephemeral baubles that dissipated energy that could be directed toward more meaningful and durable accomplishments in the world around him.
Ramez Naam
#73. There's nothing better than excelling at a game you love. There's nothing worse than thinking your accomplishments as a player outweigh your responsibilities as a person.
Doug Flutie
#74. Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they were born. I hope they will always realize how much they are loved and valued. I feel so blessed that they are in my life.
Tom Giaquinto
#75. The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.
Bill Johnson
#76. The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.
Mark McCormack
#77. A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#78. Jefferson, incidentally, was also a great adventurer with foods. Among his many other accomplishments, he was the first person in America to slice potatoes lengthwise and fry them. So as well as being the author of the Declaration of Independence, he was also the father of the American French fry.
Bill Bryson
#79. While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
Benjamin Graham
#80. How do you measure someone's life? By the scope of their accomplishments, or the number of people they've touched, or by the width of a hand? None of it seemed fair. None of it seemed like enough.
Yvonne Woon
#81. No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Althea Gibson
#82. Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service ...
Peggy Noonan
#83. When I first moved to Vail, it was like I was a little celebrity. You know, everyone knew my accomplishments. I was a young, fast teenager and making waves in the ski world. And it was really cool.
Lindsey Vonn
#84. Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity ... So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.
Liza Mundy
#85. The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker
#88. I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
John Darnielle
#89. I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.
Kyle MacLachlan
#90. A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice
but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
Doris Wild Helmering
#91. For later generations of women - post Sexual Revolution - enjoying sex was to become simply a duty, the perfect orgasm yet another thing to add to the list of required accomplishments; and when enjoyment becomes a duty, we're back in the land of dreariness of spirit.
Alice Munro
#92. Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.
Doug Stanhope
#93. Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#94. I admire writers who have the tenacity to write a blog, and I'm told by everyone that it's an important element in remaining visible in the online world. That said, I'm personally turned off by writers' blogs that do nothing but sing their own accomplishments.
David Starkey
#95. 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
#96. Be Prepared For Life's Emergencies. Always Arm Yourself With God's Word.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#97. Late-blooming success can be complicated. As people age, they are more likely to judge their accomplishments on their own terms; however, late bloomers often use the benefits of broader acknowledgment and publicity to help them meet their personal and professional goals.
J.M. Orend
#98. The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood, being considered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.
Washington Irving
#99. A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#100. The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.
Rick Santorum
