Accomplishment Quotes

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?

People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.

Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal - to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

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!

Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.

TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum

I just feel that at this particular time in my career, I've reached the pinnacle of my career, I've achieved a lot in that short amount of time, if you want to call it short, but I just feel that I don't have anything else to myself to prove.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

I came, I saw, I conquered.