Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aron Ralston

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

Bill Vaughan

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

Charlene Tilton

But the sense of accomplishment is something I’ve never felt before, in a physical sense.

Benjamin Disraeli

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Calvin Coolidge

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Atul Gawande

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

Adam Carolla

You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

Adam Gopnik

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

Anne M. Mulcahy

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Albert Bandura

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

E. M. Forster

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

Don King

Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.

Don Yaeger

Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

Alfie Kohn

Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

Andy Stanley

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Chuck Klosterman

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

Andrew Dice Clay

As long as you can walk the street and you know there's a tomorrow, there's always that chance. That's how I've always been. I've always had complete belief that I would make something out of myself again, because to me, it's always been about accomplishment.

Amy Poehler

The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.

Jane Austen

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

Jane Austen

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Bre Pettis

Done is the engine of more.

Bruce Lee

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

David Viscott

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

Edwin Louis Cole

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

Bobby Flay

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

Benjamin Franklin

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Cobie Smulders

There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.

Charles Bukowski

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Brian Tracy

Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

Brian Tracy

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

Brian Tracy

Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.

Brian Tracy

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.