Accomplishment Quotes

Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. William Adams Quotes Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. Edward Albee Quotes Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also The Foundation of courage and true progress. Lloyd Alexander Quotes People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. George Herbert Allen Quotes I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen Quotes There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people. Jan Ashford Quotes The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty. (Justin) Brooks Atkinson Quotes Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace. Saint Augustine Quotes When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. Pearl Bailey Quotes Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton Quotes Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. Thomas Arnold Bennett Quotes The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. William John Bennett Quotes Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. Warren G. Bennis Quotes You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world. Sir Walter Besant Quotes If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. Hans Albrecht Bethe Quotes About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings Quotes What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life. Srully D. Blotnick Quotes Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. Dr. Joyce Quotes The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan Quotes I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. Eric Butterworth Quotes Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. Dale Carnegie Quotes If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths. Alexis Carrel Quotes If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. James Earl Quotes If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. Maurice Chevalier Quotes Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government. Madame Chiang Quotes Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations. I Ching Quotes When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed. I Ching Quotes He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair. I Ching Quotes Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. Confucius Quotes Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. Stephen R. Covey Quotes Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. Marie Curie Quotes In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. Idi Amin Dada Quotes It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings. Bronwyn Davies Quotes Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. Mack R. Douglas Quotes Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. Albert Einstein Quotes Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein Quotes Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. George Ellis Quotes Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check. M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher Quotes Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation. Lewis S(amuel) Feuer Quotes You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers." [to former Enron CEO Keny Lay] Peter Fitzgerald Quotes There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford Quotes To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe. Anatole France Quotes The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? Brendan Francis Quotes Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! Anne Frank Quotes Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is! Anne Frank Quotes An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Dr. Thomas Fuller Quotes The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist. J(ean) Paul Getty Quotes To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. Kahlil Gibran Quotes He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. Kahlil Gibran Quotes The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish. Bhagavad Gita Quotes Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. John B. Gough Quotes What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. John B. Gough Quotes No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. Harry Gray Quotes The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. Russell Greene Quotes Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power. Gerard Hargraves Quotes The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong. Sydney J. Harris Quotes Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. Helen Hayes Quotes The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains. Ernest Hello Quotes 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 Quotes We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. Heraclitus Quotes Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. Heraclitus Quotes All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Herman Hesse Quotes The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. Napolean Hill Quotes What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve. Napolean Hill Quotes Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are The Children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. Napolean Hill Quotes One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. Etty Hilsum Quotes You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one Swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time. William E. Holler Quotes No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? Elbert Hubbard Quotes He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. Elbert Hubbard Quotes No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. Elbert Hubbard Quotes Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo Quotes No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? Lido Anthony Quotes What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces … trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are … those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. Henrik Ibsen Quotes [Today's students] can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. Jesse Louis Jackson Quotes The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own. William James Quotes Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson Quotes I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. James Earl Jones Quotes The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Gustav Jung Quotes Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Adams Keller Quotes I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Adams Keller Quotes The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert Francis Kennedy Quotes Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. Henry Alfred Kissinger Quotes Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. Michael Korda Quotes Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. R. D. Laing Quotes Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion. Lao-Tzu Quotes Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status. Lao-Tzu Quotes The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation. Lao-Tzu Quotes Goal achievement is hero's work. Earnie Larsen Quotes Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Doug Larson Quotes Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible. Doug Larson Quotes The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. Fran Lebowitz Quotes As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization. Bruce Lee Quotes Ideas are the beginning of all achievement. Bruce Lee Quotes As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world? Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right? To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this: we lack the mind of Christ. J. Arthur Lewis Quotes Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. Georg Christopher Lichtenberg Quotes The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. Rensis Likert Quotes Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. Vincent Thomas Quotes If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. Vincent Thomas Quotes The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. Vincent Thomas Quotes Let us then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve. Sophia Loren Quotes The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. Og Mandino Quotes Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. Golo Mann Quotes Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. Golda Meir Quotes He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Menander Quotes Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish. Buonarroti Michelangelo Quotes Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish. Buonarroti Michelangelo Quotes If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it. Robert Montgomery Quotes Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. Oswald Mosley Quotes Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Earl Nightingale Quotes The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes