Quotes About Accomplishment

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.

E xecution—getting the task done, making it happen—is the most unappreciated skill of an effective business leader.

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

The very force of his personality both created and crippled. How much more could he have accomplished had he been kinder? But then, dynamism and kindness often don't go together…

He was far beyond his depth, in his sea of glory," said Gamache.

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from childhood onwards to grasp the spirit of the best and wisest in every age. Shame on the artist who does not consider it his duty to achieve at least so much.

You are not an impostor," Sam Hallowell told me. "You are not there because of luck, or because you happened to be in the right place at the right moment, or because someone like me had connections. You are there because you are you, and that is a remarkable accomplishment in itself.

he'd done it as an infant.

This visceral, meaningful work makes the spirit soar with self-worth and accomplishment. This is the ultimate self-actualization. You won't find that at the end of a video game, no matter how many times you play.

It ain't braggin' if y'really done it.

it was more a matter of time being divided up for you; if the ordained segments were too short, you got little done, while if they were too long, you got less done than you could have.

First, when we are busy, we naturally believe that we are achieving. But busyness does not equal productivity. Activity is not necessarily accomplishment. Second, prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what's important, to know what's next, to see how everything relates to the overall vision. That's hard work. Third, prioritizing causes us to do things that are at the least uncomfortable and sometimes downright painful.

People who embrace possibility thinking are capable of accomplishing tasks that seem impossible because they believe in solutions.

There can be no success without sacrifice. The two go hand in hand. If you desire to accomplish little, sacrifice little. But if you want to accomplish great things, be willing to sacrifice much.

Reward only finished work: It's good to praise effort, but you should never reward it. Give

The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .

As you communicate with people—whether individuals or groups—ask yourself these questions: Who is my audience? What are their questions? What needs to be accomplished? And how much time do I have? If you want to become a better communicator, become audience oriented.

Novelist H. G. Wells held that wealth, notoriety, place, and power are no measures of success whatsoever. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have been and what we have become. In other words, success comes as the result of growing to our potential.

Durante veintiún días, escribió casi sin parar. Luego pasó otros dos días trabajando en la orquestación. En veinticuatro días, completó el manuscrito de doscientos sesenta páginas. Llamó a esa obra El Mesías.

Cualquiera puede comenzar, pero solamente alguien de buena estirpe puede terminar.

Self-respect is produced by inner triumphs, not external ones. —DAVID BROOKS

He has done what he wanted, he had swum the county, but he was so stupified with exhaustion that his triumph seemed vague.