Trying To Accomplish Something Quotes

#1. If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Peter M. Brant

#2. Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas A. Edison

#3. There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something ... All this talk about rules ... When the deal goes down ... we make 'em up as we go along.

Alcee Hastings

#4. I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Calvin Coolidge

#5. And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.

Liza Minnelli

#6. There are no rules here
we're trying to accomplish something.

Thomas A. Edison

#7. These are challenges," Jack told her. "That's it. We are going to win. You know why? Because it doesn't matter if you're in a fairy tale or here in real life, doing the right thing still counts for something. We're going to win because we're good, decent people trying to accomplish something noble.

James Riley

#8. The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#9. The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.

John Allen Fraser

#10. Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Dale Carnegie

#11. Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Frank A. Clark

#12. When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

Zach Johnson

#13. War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

Jayne Mansfield

#14. Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

Marilynne Robinson

#15. "I knew I was lucky. Blessed, even. But it was a lot of pressure ... trying not to waste what you've been given. I wanted to accomplish something. To love something. To be something. But I didn't know how. I didn't know what."
"Finding it

Cora Carmack

#16. I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don't do anything until you know what the mission is. Drilled into our hearts and into our heads.

Colin Powell

#17. You should be living your life surrounded by people who are like-minded, service-oriented, and grateful, people who are trying to accomplish things, and who bring something to the table.

Steve Harvey

#18. I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.

Sheldon Adelson

#19. We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

George Soros

#20. Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

Michael Jordan

#21. I'm always constantly doing stuff with Beyonce in mind. Anytime I hear a beat I think she'll love, I'll put something to it and go from there and hopefully it's something that she's in the mood for doing.What exactly were you trying to accomplish with this song?

Bryce Wilson

#22. M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n!

Thomas A. Edison

#23. There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

Masanobu Fukuoka

#24. When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone

Bonnie Gillespie