#Accomplishment Quotes

“The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.”

“Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.”

“Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.”

“Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.”

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

“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.”

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

“Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?”

“I'd say he's done more than that.”

“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 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.”

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

“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.”

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

“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.”

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

“Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.”

“Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.”

“When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

“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.”

“I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!”

“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.”

“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”

“You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.”

“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?”

“It is tranquil people who accomplish much.”

“It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.”

“I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.”

“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.”

“True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

“Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”

“I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.”

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

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

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

“Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.”

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

“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.”