Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dweezil Zappa

Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.

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.

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.

Che Guevara

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

Jimmy Carter

My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

John C. Maxwell

Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

Majora Carter

Jane Jacobs work wouldnt have been complete if it hadn't inspired others to carry it on, and evolve Jane's groundbreaking accomplishments so that the essential kernel of thought remains relevant for future generations. The essayists in What We See have built on those essential footholds that people who have never heard of Jane Jacobs will benefit from for decades.

Orson Welles

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Herman Cain

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

Helen Keller

The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it?

Iyanla Vanzant

Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.

Chris Witty

It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

Gil Scott-Heron

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

George Bernard Shaw

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Carly Fiorina

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

Carly Fiorina

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

Carly Fiorina

Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something. Mrs. Clinton, flying is an activity not an accomplishment.

Jaron Lanier

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Harold Brodkey

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Moby

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we're not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. But biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.