Quotes About Accomplishment

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth.

The wise man gladly leaves fame to others. He does not seek to have credited to himself things that stand accomplished, but hopes to release active forces; that is, he completes his works in such a manner that they may bear fruit for the future.

We can praise a man only when we have seen what he accomplishes. But we must praise God in order to see what he accomplishes. And therefore we should praise him at the very moments in life when there seems to be no way out. Then we shall learn to see the way out for our own lives, simply because God is there at the end of every way and every blind alley.

By the sole fact of being accomplished, reality casts its shadow behind it into the indefinitely distant past: it thus seems to have been pre-existent to its own realization, in the form of a possible. From this results an error which vitiates our conception of the past; from this arises our claim to anticipate the future on every occasion

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

So it has come at last—the Distinguished Thing.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

Something attempted, something done,Has earned a night's repose.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of some great, unfathomable mystery being accomplished... the most solemn mystery in the world was being accomplished. Evening passed, night came on. And the feeling of suspense and softening of the heart before the unfathomable did not wane, but grew more intense. No one slept.

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

To settle the matter in his own mind was one thing but to carry it out was another.

even damn fools can accomplish something now and then.

Accomplishments have no color.

Ask yourself if you are leaving a trail that others may want to follow. Are you leaving a legacy of accomplishment? What mark will you leave on your industry? Your friends and family?