Quotes About Accomplishment

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

Whatever you accomplish in life is a manifestation not as much of what you do, as of what you believe you deserve.

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.

After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.

We aim to please Miss Steele

Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment".

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.

Finally, after three long, hot, and dry weeks, we were at the end of training. We were snipers! Marine scout-snipers! DuBay chaired a formal meeting and pronounced each of us ready, trained, and real live, bonafide snipers. And damned if we didn't think we were.

We asked for a car. The clerk checked our driver's licenses. "Sorry," he said, "you guys are too young." Right. Among the three of us we've got 226 missions over North Vietnam, three ejections, two Silver Stars, five Distinguished Flying Crosses, twenty-three Air Medals, three Purple Hearts, and we're still too young to rent a car.

The world is becoming more technologically complex, interdependent, and culturally diverse, which makes the building of relationships more and more necessary to get things accomplished and, at the same time, more difficult. Relationships are the key to good communication; good communication is the key to successful task accomplishment; and Humble Inquiry, based on Here-and-now Humility, is the key to good relationships.

Beyond these general points about culture, why do specific aspects of the U.S. culture make Humble Inquiry more difficult? THE MAIN PROBLEM–A CULTURE THAT VALUES TASK ACCOMPLISHMENT MORE THAN RELATIONSHIP BUILDING

The world is becoming more technologically complex, interdependent, and culturally diverse, which makes the building of relationships more and more necessary to get things accomplished and, at the same time, more difficult. Relationships are the key to good communication; good communication is the key to successful task accomplishment; and Humble Inquiry, based on Here-and-now Humility, is the key to good relationships. Increasingly

we value task accomplishment over relationship building and either are not aware of this cultural bias or, worse, don't care and don't want to be bothered with it.

He [David] died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor.

Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

The tassel's worth the hassle!