Quotes About Accomplishment

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

The greatest revenge is massive success.

Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: "He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being."8

What a useless life I had led. Often enough in hours of normal health I had debated the value of writing books. What did one accomplish by writing, what influence did one exert, what improvements did one effect?

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that

The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening.

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

There can be no cancellation of accomplished facts; but for practical purposes a conspiracy of silence is almost as effective as cancellation. Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what's possible, they say they can effect themselves.

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it. It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly