Best Great Accomplishment Quotes

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I never thought that Bill Clinton should be the president. When he was running to be the president of the United States, he said on over a hundred occasions, he said the following: He said, ‘One of the great accomplishments while I was the governor of Arkansas, was to take my state in education from 50th to 49th.’ And I thought, ‘ you know, Bill, you should keep that a secret.

I know Malcolm [Subban] and myself, we’re a little bit older now, but we don’t know everything. To get to where we have so far has been a great accomplishment but we’re not even close to being satisfied. To be able to keep on getting better, progressing, and having success, you need help. What better place to get it than from your parents?

Great accomplishment seems imperfect,
Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
Great fullness seems empty,
Yet it cannot be exhausted.

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

Heat is required to forge anything. Every
great accomplishment is the story of a flaming
heart.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

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.

You are certainly wrong to compare suicide … with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It’s my one great accomplishment – more so than anything else I’ve done.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

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.

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

Power is a big thing in baseball. It can’t be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn’t. It isn’t a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it’s a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

A great accomplishment shouldn’t be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it’s a great accomplishment.

Every great accomplishment starts with a first step. No matter how big your goals are. No matter how great your plans are. No matter how immense your dreams are. It all begins with a single step. Take that step today!

I believe that the world has become more democratic and open. Women have become more outspoken, more active and competitive. They have achieved great accomplishments in many fields that were previously dominated by men.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

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.

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster