Quotes About Accomplishment

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning. -Mat

The Nobel laureate Anatole France once wrote, "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." To those who believe our institutions can be better than they are, I say, Dream. Believe. Plan. Act.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

In a community coursed through by energies every road leads to a worthwhile goal, provided one doesn't hesitate or reflect too long. Targets are short-term, but since life is short too, results are maximized, which is all people need to be happy, because the soul is formed by what you accomplish, whereas what you desire without achieving it merely warps the soul. Happiness depends very little on what we want, but only on achieving whatever it is.

Più una cosa è difficile da ottenere, maggiore è la soddisfazione che provi quando ce la fai.

It seemed an hour to her before Diana came rushing along the hall and burst into the room without even knocking, so great was her excitement. "Anne, you've passed," she cried, "passed the very first—you and Gilbert both—you're ties—but your name is first. Oh, I'm so proud!

Oh, Matthew," exclaimed Anne, "I've passed and I'm first—or one of the first! I'm not vain, but I'm thankful." "Well now, I always said it," said Matthew, gazing at the pass list delightedly. "I

There is no pleasure in life like the joy of achievement.

Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew.

Made weird children--will die proud. -Rachel Pealer

She looked around the table. "All of you! You all worked together in concert perfectly. I am so proud of you! We did an impossible job, and we did it as well as it could be done. You not only worked together and did what was needed of you, you did more than a person can do, sometimes even more than a grown-up would do. I can't praise you enough. Thank you. And thanks to our heavenly Father.

Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

These days any planned thing looked good to me. What heaven to have your work cut out for you, to be part of the Big Picture -- a picture you did not have to paint yourself.

Congratulations, she said formally. You have gradated.

and i wrote My Name in big letters got my first badge, a library card

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.

The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.