Quotes About Personal Accomplishments

#1. Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. Even wondered about the difference?
Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure.
Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts of someone whose only accomplishments are often self-pity and vindictiveness.

Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

#3. 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

#4. Life is long and there is enough of it for satisfying personal accomplishments if we use our hours well.

Seneca.

#5. The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Bob Cousy

#6. The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.

Vince Lombardi

#7. Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

Marvin J. Ashton

#8. I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious.

Mitch Lasky

#9. Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.

Calvin Coolidge

#10. The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. 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

#12. Just tell me, baby."

"Do not - "

"I'm allowed to call you 'baby'
when I'm pretending to be a criminal. That's how criminals talk,

Audrey Bell

#13. Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people's successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. A calm environment is for after I finish work.

Lee Child

#15. I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it.

Missy Elliott

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Selling yourself does not mean boasting about your accomplishments but rather demonstrating security in your goals and your lifestyle so your "customers" feel success and want to emulate it

Joe Girard

#18. I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

Jeff VanderMeer

#19. 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

#20. 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