Quotes About Accomplishment

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field.

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

We have a Marlboro Man Theory of leadership and change, especially in America, but in fact anything great that's accomplished is accomplished by many hands.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

I do not love the money. What I do love is the getting of it ... What other interest can you suggest to me? I do not read. I do not take part in politics. What can I do?

There is no financial plateau that you cannot reach

Success will bring recognition, money and all other pleasures of life

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

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

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.