Quotes About Accomplishment

How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work - was refused them?

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

El hecho consumado persuade más que todos los razonamientos; es por eso que no hay nada como la acción directa para arrancar conquistas.

The object of an action and the level of the energy by which it is carried out are distinct from each other. A certain thing must be done. But where is the energy to be drawn for its accomplishment? A virtuous action can lower a man if there is not enough energy available on the same level.

Set your deeds throughout the world that everyone may greet you.

More and more, as I think about history, I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

More and more, as I think about history," he pondered, "I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever." *

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever.

GIVE US THE TOOLS AND WE WILL FINISH THE WORK

I know I please where I must please the most.

I'm comfortable with how I lived my life as the president.

Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.

Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

There is nothing more rewarding than completing a goal you have set for yourself.

Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.

Don't worry if you don't accomplish everything in this life. Fortunately, death overcomes every thing—even the very thing that tried to kill us.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment

But now my task is smoothly done:I can fly, or I can run.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but doWhat then thou would'st.