Quotes About Getting Things Accomplished

#1. Getting things accomplished isn't nearly as important as taking time for love.

Janette Oke

#2. Showing respect for others when they don't agree with you, and during the times when you don't agree with them as well, helps to avoid arguments that serve no good purpose. This approach can lead to getting things accomplished peacefully.

Ellen J. Barrier

#3. Youth ministry is not about getting things accomplished - only the act of God can bring about the transformation we seek. Youth ministry is about participating deeply in young people's lives as we await, together in suffering & joy, the coming of God.

Andrew Root

#4. Meantime, when once we know from nothing still
Nothing can be create, we shall divine
More clearly what we seek: those elements
From which alone all things created are,
And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.

Lucretius

#5. It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.

Colton Haynes

#6. I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Charles Dickens

#7. All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Ernest Renan

#8. How would it feel to live a full life and have no one remember it, to have no one remember the extraordinary things you accomplished, even if it was just waking up every day and finding the courage to get out of bed?

T.J. Klune

#9. I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know ... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

Kajol

#10. Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

Paul Valery

#11. It is amazing what can be accomplished when we wait on God to lead us out. It is equally amazing the mess we can make of things when we charge out on our own.

Andy Stanley

#12. The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Big things are accomplished when we master the little things.

John Wooden

#14. I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.

Hank Aaron

#15. Looking backwards, I look at my resume and I look at the things I've accomplished, but quite honestly there's just that word, 'Mother', I just saw it on the paper, and I that's the one that means the most to me.

Michele Bachmann

#16. Live your life like the novels that you love to read. Only do the things that when you look back, you are proud of what you accomplished, feel good about how you treated others and didn't regret not doing to trying something. Every day is a new chapter, write something.

Taylor Berke

#17. Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. And, as I get to the airport, I realize that I'm a runner. Life gets hot and I pack my things and leave. It's new, but so is being an adult. I'm learning about myself. But, hey! I did what I came to do. So I'm an accomplished runner. Greer

Tarryn Fisher

#19. I'd lived for her smile and I would've done anything to make her laugh. It always made me feel like I'd accomplished something when that dimple appeared in her cheek. Things were different now, but that didn't mean that I couldn't help her out this once.

Komal Kant

#20. Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.

Vince Lombardi

#21. Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Wilson Mizner

#22. When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

Saskya Pandita

#23. You merely picture in your mind having already accomplished or attained your goal, whatever it may be. Hold it firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.

Og Mandino

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

Warren Bennis

#25. The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.

Harry Hopkins

#26. I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

Jeffrey Donovan

#27. Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.

Behdad Sami

#28. My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.

Alexander O'Neal

#29. It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished.

Gertrude Stein

#30. Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I accomplished something, became a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on.

Nora Ephron

#31. I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.

Loretta Young

#32. Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.

Mother Angelica

#33. To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.

Richard Proenneke

#34. We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is ... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.

Mark W. Boyer

#35. There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Sitting Bull

#36. It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#37. For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

Rufus Wainwright

#38. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Orison Swett Marden

#39. He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Menander

#40. Set your goals high and then go home at night and think about three things youve accomplished, not the seven you didnot.

Samuel Richards

#41. Hardships and handicaps can ... stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

Beatrice Wood

#42. Setting goals is one of the most important things you can do to guarantee your personal, professional and financial success. Goals are like a road map to your target destination. Each goal accomplished is another mile behind you on the way to where you want to be.

Mark Victor Hansen

#43. The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

Brian Tracy

#44. Mostly I've been inspired by my mother. She is extremely driven and always makes every endeavour sound exciting. I think most of the things I've accomplished are a result of knowing her.

Christopher Masterson

#45. I've always found hitting a man from behind to be the best way to go about things. This can sometimes be accomplished by dint of a simple ruse. Classics such as, "What's that over there?" work surprisingly often, but for truly optimal results it's best if the person doesn't ever know you were there.

Mark Lawrence

#46. Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#47. Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Thomas Sowell

#48. I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.

Brett Favre

#49. In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.

L. Ron Hubbard

#50. If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#51. I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am an encloser of things to be.

Walt Whitman

#52. How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

Napoleon Bonaparte

#53. But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

Cam Newton

#54. Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

John Wooden

#55. Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.

Wilferd Peterson

#56. You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

Maya Angelou

#57. People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power in his hands.

Jules Verne

#58. There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision.

Ray Bradbury

#59. If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Francis Bacon

#60. I have known Donald Trump for almost 30 years. And he has created and accomplished great things. But beyond that, this is a man with a big heart.

Rudy Giuliani

#61. It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.

Charles Spurgeon

#62. The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening.

Linda S. Reeves

#63. All too often the people of our culture think they're really doing something if they're out there fighting bad things and getting laws passed. Just look at what we've accomplished by outlawing drugs and waging a trillion-dollar War on Drugs! (Nothing!)

Daniel Quinn

#64. Many great things have been accomplished by the careful combination of keen minds and ardent spirits.

G.D. Falksen

#65. I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think about all the things white people have accomplished throughout history, I smile, and I nod, and I think to myself, 'Yeah, I'm glad I'm on that team.'

Zach Braff

#66. The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.

St. Vincent

#67. I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still

Zig Ziglar

#68. Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.

Dannion Brinkley

#69. The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power.

Garry Wills

#70. Despite what you may have learned last month, sustained writing is best accomplished as part of a balanced lifestyle, one that includes things like grocery shopping and speaking in complete sentences with your significant other. No

Chris Baty

#71. All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

Bryant McGill

#72. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

#73. I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Robert Duvall

#74. If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.

Vaclav Havel

#75. Rage or fear ... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

David Chang

#76. Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

#77. 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.

Alan Alda

#78. It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

#79. Not all dreams need to be realized. That was what Fred used to say. We accomplished things that no one would ever know.

Patti Smith

#80. The greatest things in life are usually accomplished by ordinary people who want to do extraordinary things.

Christine E. McLean

#81. I think you get the picture. [1976] was a year that like all years, a lot of things happened in. People were on TV or in movies, they wrote songs that were liked more than other songs, while other people excelled at sports, and, as always, a lot of accomplished and famous people died.

Carrie Fisher

#82. You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. War and courage have accomplished more great things than love of the neighbor. Not your pity but your courage has so far saved the unfortunate.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#83. Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

Thomas Jefferson

#84. I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.

Mike Piazza

#85. Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

David Dinkins

#86. By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.

Hugo Grotius

#87. I think there are some things that we got accomplished in the last two weeks. Our defending was good and our offensive line took some strides, but we will look at it and analyze it so it will be a long day tomorrow.

Les Miles

#88. It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.

Ernest Borgnine

#89. I just think God put me on this earth as a tool ... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished.

Tito Ortiz

#90. You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.

Chogyam Trungpa

#91. I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

David Bezmozgis

#92. For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.

Cormac McCarthy

#93. There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain

#94. Liberty clutched him tightly. 'You played a part in my destiny. And maybe I played a part in yours.'
That was how things worked, she was beginning to realize. Destiny wasn't something you accomplished by yourself.

Kelly Easton

#95. I feel really good about the things I've accomplished in my life, and I don't want to look younger.

Andie MacDowell

#96. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

Orison Swett Marden

#97. A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

Honore De Balzac

#98. More things in this world have been accomplished in this world by persistence than by wisdom.

Elaine Cunningham

#99. Overcoming one of my limiting beliefs, "girls are not as strong as men, therefore we cannot attempt the same physical challenges." I can tell you, with all certainty, this is not true. I have accomplished things on skis no one thought were physically possible for females.

Lynsey Dyer

#100. The power of prayer is priceless.
Great things can be accomplished by prayer.

Lailah Gifty Akita