Accomplishment Quotes

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yourself, Greatest, Trying

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

Between, Discipline, Goals

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Busy, Real

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Long, Happen, Attention

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Mind, Energy

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Vince Lombardi

Greatest, After, Again

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale

Real, Between, Mediocrity

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing, Builds

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing, Achieve, Simply

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn

Work, Great, Failure

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
Helen Hayes

Long, Through, Problem

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
Chris Christie

Today, Sacrifice, Country

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
Hillary Clinton

Peace, Between, Last

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Work, Play, Between

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
Malcolm Gladwell

Life, Great, Put

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
Paul Wellstone

Teacher, Learning, Children

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.
George W. Bush

Live, Real, Country

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Maxwell Maltz

Individual, Boundaries, Sets

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
Arnold H. Glasow

Great, Heart, Nothing

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Helen Rowland

Art, Married, Lies

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson

Love, Failure, Children

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Karr

Love, Marriage, Beautiful

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Eric Butterworth

Nothing, Achieve, Simply

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Whatever, Willing, Declare

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
Emile M. Cioran

Men, Appetite, Torment

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
Benjamin Carson

Life, Great, Person

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
Cameron Diaz

Life, Work, Hard

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Making, Biggest, Athlete

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
Jeanne Moreau

Life, Moment, Meaning

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.
John Podhoretz

Political, Victory, Obama

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