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Quotes About Accomplishment

Men and boys will accept you more easily when you excel at something they value.
~ Billie Jean King
Do you realize that if you had started building the Parthenon on the day you were born you would be all done in only one more year? Of course, you couldn't have done it alone, so never mind, you're fine just as you are. You are loved simply for being yourself.
~ Billy Collins
He shoots....He scores!
~ Bob Miller
The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.
~ Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed
~ Booker T. Washington
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
~ Booker T. Washington
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
~ Sylvia Plath
Do I love laziness more than I love the feeling of accomplishing work? I take the path of least resistance and curl up with a book.
~ Sylvia Plath
Thank God for, as I posted earlier, the glow of work accomplished. Because a few seconds later, someone on the internet mentioned pie. I don't blame them. It's a good subject. But pie was mentioned and I remembered there was strawberry-rhubarb pie in the refrigerator. So I went there. And pie there was none. I suspect the teenaged boy has inhaled it. And now I cling to life and hope as best I can, because my world is dark and pieless.
~ Tad Williams
Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.
~ Tahir Shah
To be free is to have achieved your life.
~ Tennessee Williams
What's talent but the ability to get away with something?
~ Tennessee Williams
My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'
~ Julia Roberts
Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.
~ Julian Fellowes
To feel apprehensive about certain things is normal, but in doing them, in conquering our fears- that is where the true rewards are. That is when we accomplish great things." He gazed down at her lovely profile and wondered how it was possible that a woman could make him feel so content and inspired, yet so enormously randy at the same time. "I agree," he said, struggling to focus on the subject at hand. "Life has to be faced head-on with courage and fortitude.
~ Julianne MacLean
I came, I saw, I conquered.
~ Julius Caesar
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
~ Julius Caesar
As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.
~ Junior Seau
Success is not a destination, it's a journey. Let's enjoy every step, and celebrate every accomplishment along the way.
~ Justin Guerra
That talent lives in within me. Now though, it goes as easily as a sword being put back in a scabbard. It's done what it was needed for. It's done the most important thing it will ever be needed for.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
You will rarely get introduced as the two-time Pocono champion. You will certainly be introduced as the two-time Daytona 500 champion.
~ Michael Waltrip
Since 1934 every accomplished player in golf has come to the Augusta National looking for an introduction into history.
~ Jim Nantz
It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.
~ Denis Law