Accomplishing Anything Quotes:

It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.

- M. Stanton Evans

topic: Credit, Care, Accomplishing Anything

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Giving Credit, Inspirational Achievement

It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.

- Porter Stansberry

topic: Moving Slowly, Accomplishment, Presidential, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Success, Thinking, Pay, Inspirational Determination, Memento Mori

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Self Confidence

You can have anything you want

- Jenifer Lewis

topic: Want, Eldest, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Success Failure, Singleness

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Achievement, Excellent, Accomplish, Accomplishing Anything

With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.

- Selena

topic: Attitude, Positive Attitude, Want, Singleness, Desire For Success

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Success, Football, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Hard Work

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

- Gary Zukav

source: FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 26, 2015

topic: Important, Desire, Accomplish, Accomplishing Anything

I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.

- Angelina Jolie

source: "Acting and Politics Are Sometimes a Very Bad Combination". Interview with Lars-Olav Beier and Andreas Borcholte, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2007.

topic: Mother, Hate, Cry, Cried, Accomplishing Anything

Why bother lifting weights if you aren't following a sound nutritional regimen? Sure, it may be fun, but are you really accomplishing anything?

- Robert Cheeke

topic: Fun, Bodybuilding, Lifting Weights, Why Bother, Accomplishing Anything

But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

- Rafe Esquith

topic: Teacher, Children, Ignorance, Inherit The Wind, Accomplishing Anything

We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything - not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is. That is what we are doing when we sit down to meditate. That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Spiritual, Attitude, Struggle, Accomplishing Anything

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

- Theodore Kaczynski

topic: Art, Focus, Despair, Accomplishing Anything

Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it – although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.

- Gerhard Richter

source: Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

topic: Knowing, Long, Leaving, Accomplishing Anything, Initials

I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,

- Harry Reid

topic: War, Believe, Iraq, Accomplishing Anything

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

- Harry Reid

topic: War, Lost, Accomplishing Anything, Stupid Liberal

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Goal, Way, Steps, Accomplishing Anything

Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Running, Thinking, Differences, Accomplishing Anything, Did You Know