Accomplishment Quotes

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. View quote
Jim Rohn
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
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. View quote
Erik Erikson
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. View quote
Steven Weinberg
If there is effort, there is always accomplishment. View quote
Jigoro Kano
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations. View quote
Margaret Drabble
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. View quote
Orson Welles
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)
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. View quote
Helen Rowland
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
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. View quote
Ben Carson
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment. View quote
Martin Seligman
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. View quote
Harold Brodkey
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. View quote
Paul Wellstone
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon. View quote
Alan Shepard
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life's losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves. View quote
Donald Trump
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect. View quote
Willa Cather