Quotes About Accomplishment

Fighting in a heavier weight class is a big achievement on its own.

I hope that when I'm 90 years old, I've accomplished a legacy that isn't all about me. I hope it's a legacy about the people who our foundation helps.

The title's the goal, not to beat Henry Cejudo. Because I already accomplished that goal.

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.

The fact that Sanjay Leela Bhansali wanted me to be part of his film was a high point in my life.

Yay, me - I made it out of high school alive and well!

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

I'm experienced. I've played at the highest level for a long time and done a lot of things in the game.

I played at the highest level throughout my career and I'm happy about that.

I am happy that my career has been successful and I want to finish at the highest level possible.

I feel that I have to succeed to the highest level I can.

My job, I've made it as far as I can and have gotten to the highest level.

I am not one of those people who has contempt for Hillary Clinton. I think she's served our nation. I think there are things that she's done that are very good.

He never married. But he wrote a good book.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. General desires are but weak longings. For a man to wish to be rich is of little purpose. For a man to desire five pieces of gold is a tangible desire which he can press to fulfillment.

Still, accomplishment is unreliable. Succeeding, whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that succeeding will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

I can look back and see that I've spent much of my life in a cloud of things that have tended to push being kind to the periphery. Things like: Anxiety. Fear. Insecurity. Ambition. The mistaken belief that enough accomplishment will rid me of all that anxiety, fear, insecurity, and ambition. The belief that if I can only accrue enough -- enough accomplishment, money, fame -- my neuroses will disappear.

If we're going to become kinder, that process has to include taking ourselves seriously—as doers, as accomplishers, as dreamers. We have to do that, to be our best selves.

Over the years I've felt: Kindness, sure—but first let me finish this semester, this degree, this book; let me succeed at this job, and afford this house, and raise these kids, and then, finally, when all is accomplished, I'll get started on the kindness. Except it never all gets accomplished. It's a cycle that can go on … well, forever.

A trente ans, l'on se doit d'être arrivé, ou bien l'on n'est rien. Et nul n'est arrivé s'il n'a trouvé sa place, s'il n'a creusé son trou, s'il n'a ses clés, son bureau, sa petite plaque.

It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished.