Quotes About Accomplishment

No matter what their choice of music, in the lives of too many teenagers, recognition is more meaningful than accomplishment

On the surface one might think that if one simply concerns oneself with altruistic intent and future lifetimes, the practical aspects of this life will not be accomplished, and one will be a failure. This simply isn't true. On the contrary, when one really does renounce or let go of this lifetime everything is taken care of by force of the deeper motivation.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

But the good thing about subtle hints was that one could ignore them as long as the actual work got done.

Practicality is a great help when it comes to getting things achieved,

Nothing went boom or splat. Irene was still alive and moving freely. She decided to call her mission a total success so far.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

It was never enough for him merely to establish a result; he had to do it with elegance and grace.

You have to let your people take pride in a job well accomplished and recognize them for it. You will get better results.

What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.)

That is, he made boasts. But boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

On Earth, we have a continuous influx of young people who are willing to change because they haven't had time to grow hard set in their ways. I suppose there's some optimum. A life long enough for real accomplishment and short enough to make way for youth at a rate that's not too slow.

boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Un hombre hace lo que puede, una mujer hace lo que el hombre no puede.

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

I learn how to put myself in situations at practice that cause me to zone in on what I'm trying to accomplish at meets. I try to make my practice surrounding as close to competition pressure to focus on what I need to do on the big stage.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

I came, I saw, I conquered.