Quotes About Accomplishment

I think I made good movies.

Asked once what he was doing to keep busy in retirement, Hank Aaron replied, "I'm being Hank Aaron.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

With heightened tensions at home and abroad, he had a weak track record on both fronts. Soaring rhetoric was one thing, but when it came to policy, he had floundered. From the Bay of Pigs fiasco to his window dressing on civil rights, his presidency lacked any significant accomplishment.

Doing things is not the same as getting things done.

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.

You can't build on top of "We'll decide later," but you can build on top of "Done.

Ser una empresa pequeña no tiene que acomplejarte. Cualquiera que dirija un negocio con futuro y que sea rentable, sea grande o pequeño, debería sentirse orgulloso de ello.

Tener la idea de eBay no tiene nada que ver con ir y crear eBay. Lo que importa es lo que haces, no lo que piensas o planeas.

of those who had not measured up to its demands were many. He was one of the few who had measured up. He had earned the privilege to call these mountains his home. In return, he

Step 2: Check Your Purposes and Decide Whether to Raise the Issue • Purposes: What do you hope to accomplish by having this conversation? Shift your stance to support learning, sharing, and problem-solving. • Deciding: Is this the best way to address the issue and achieve your purposes? Is the issue really embedded in your Identity Conversation? Can you affect the problem by changing your contributions? If you don't raise it, what can you do to help yourself let go?

anything we accomplish of eternal value is brought about by the ability and empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

All creativity comes out of inner spaciousness. Once the creation has happened and something has come into form, you have to be vigilant so that the notion of me or mine does not arise. If you take credit for what you accomplished, the ego has returned, and the spaciousness has become obscured.

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.

What they accomplished, Alice, with instruments and weapons of stone and bone, surely that may we accomplish also.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

During many ages, the prediction, as it is usual, contributed to its own accomplishment. 

Gotham admired Maeve. By day she managed money, and did it brilliantly, but she didn't find it satisfied her intellect. She spoke four languages. She played the piano seriously well. And she read books. Lots of them.

in view of God's sovereign control, God will accomplish his purposes in our lives even when we make decisions we later regret.

But no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on, nor contributed significantly to the evolution of our species by working a forty-hour week, nor achieved any significant accomplishment by taking refuge in cynicism.

I quite cold-bloodedly reached the conclusion that I would never be able to accomplish anything useful so long as I was worried.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

The curious measure, of course, is that we fail to recognize the most obvious notion in all of this: that we ourselves are the best magicians we know. What our bodies do, what our minds accomplish, and the context we can give to things, how we make it all fit together, this is something.

You can accomplish anything," she once told me, "as long as you are willing to let others take credit for it.