Quotes About Accomplishment

Success' is world's most beautiful thing

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Kill them with success, and bury them with a smile

There is no such thing as S CCESS without U in it!

Appreciate success and status thy will bestow.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results.

Success can not be measured in dollars and cents.

Nothing Succeeds Like Success".

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

You can have pride in what you do each day," said Sister Yu, "but not arrogance in what you were born with." She

I beat Saratoga for the first time, and I felt that I had come of age as a horseplayer.

The sprinter unwisely indulges his arrogance against the marathon runner, and likewise, parents who encourage their children's narcissism do them no favours. It is best to accomplish something before becoming famous, because if the fame comes first, it often precludes accomplishment...You don't build a career by playing Carnegie Hall. You build a career and then Carnegie Hall will invite you to play.

And, I had to admit it - I was pretty proud of myself.

But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating for an hour, or perhaps a day, but then they subside.

As my doubts about whether to move to the Balkans lingered, I devised a test for myself that I have used many times since. The test, as I put it then, was as follows: If I end up not making it as a journalist, will something else I learn in the process make it worth trying? I would come to call this the in trying for Y, the most I accomplish is X test, or the X test.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

A man may be accomplished in art, literature, and science, and yet, in honesty, virtue, truthfulness, and the spirit of duty, be entitled to take rank after many a poor and illiterate peasant.

He is full of purpose, but void of the quality of mind which accomplishes purpose.

A word of explanation is necessary to those who fear setting up a schedule because it feels rigid and stifling. Scheduling is not an inflexible list that is written in stone. It is a statement of what regular tasks are important to accomplish each day and when you plan to do them during the day. As you become experienced in using and tweaking your schedule, you will find it meets your needs more and more successfully and will become your friend. (pp. 163-164).

Later up in my room, I kept thinking about this, the idea of distance and accomplishment. The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. In the end though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.