Quotes About Accomplishment

When people ask me, 'What are you most proud of,' I say it's that I've had five people close enough to ask me to present them at the World Golf Hall of Fame. There were any number of people they could have used, but they asked me. It really means a lot to me.

I'm not hesitating on that. I am a Hall of Famer.

It's just a great honor to even be associated with the Hall of Fame and get in. If I eventually do make it, it will be a great honor, and I don't care if it's the first or second time because it's an honor for anyone to make the Hall of Fame.

Man, to make the Hall would be incredible. I'd cry for, like, five weeks straight.

The hall of fame is something you do when you look back at the end of your career, not in the middle of it.

Hands down, my son fighting for a world title, that's bigger than me going into the Hall of Fame.

I'm a Hall of Famer at retirement.

Lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do.

When you are given public honor for an accomplishment, be sure to share the credit with your spouse.

The Lord . . . did exactly what he had promised. —Genesis 21:1

All of us have areas in which we feel insecure. We lack courage and that lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things we would like to do.

From a biblical perspective, the purpose of life is not to accomplish our own objectives. The purpose of life is to know God and to bring glory and honor to his name.

Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.

Only rarely had Barry seen women combine humor with success.

I mentally savored the moment of America's triumph like a fine wine.

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

Every kind of falsehood and truth is present in public opinion, but it is the prerogative of the great man to discover the truth within it. He who expresses the will of his age, tells it what its will is, and accomplishes this will, is the great man of the age.

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

He loved also to think, I did it! And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.

Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but something in particular.

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the doorsill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present.

in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal.

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.