Accomplishments Quotes

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

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

We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'

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

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

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.

For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.

One of the best legislative accomplishments I've had here on an international basis and on saving lives is the bill we did against human trafficking.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.