Quotes About Wanting To Accomplish Something

#1. Here I am ... wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end
that there is such a thing as death.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

Raoul Dufy

#3. If you want to be a bridge of hope to the world, you've got to allow yourself to be walked on

Tommy Barnett

#4. Percy wondered if something inside the boy had broken permanently.

Rick Riordan

#5. No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

John Ruskin

#6. You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

Julio Iglesias

#7. I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

Aaron Huey

#8. I'd rather stay home and watch the tube than go out and make myself into a spectacle. I'm not uncomfortable with a social life, but it doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't seem to accomplish anything - it just leaves one wanting for more.

George Harrison

#9. Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

Ivan Turgenev

#10. Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Alexandra David-Neel

#11. If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. On a serious note, I stand by Obama on marriage equality! I believe ALL families deserve the same rights

Connor Barwin

#13. The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention.

Wayne Dyer

#14. What you seek is seeking you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#15. Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do

Miguel El Portugues

#16. Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

Joseph Nye

#17. The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.

Hamilton Leithauser

#18. If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.

Louis Pasteur

#19. The darkness of the world is but a shadow, but there is light that causes the shadow.

John Hudson Tiner

#20. Dee, I think the reason why he stares at me is because he's planning on ways to kill me and hide my body.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

H.G.Wells