Top 140 Accomplishments Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Accomplishments Quotes from famous people such as Gil Scott-Heron, Clyde Drexler, Machine Gun Kelly, Rick Wilson, Matt Cain, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.
Gil Scott-Heron
I had a lot of wonderful accomplishments in the game of basketball. Of course, to win a gold medal for your country – it doesn’t get any better than that.
Clyde Drexler
I have so many accomplishments under my belt.
Machine Gun Kelly
Trump ‘accomplishments’ are ephemeral, coincidental and accidental.
Rick Wilson
That’s what you want to do, is get recognized for accomplishments you’ve had on the field, not off the field. That’s always my goal, to find ways to do that.
Matt Cain
I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.
Maria Shriver
Everyone fears change. But what you’ll find is that change breeds your most important accomplishments.
Chris Long
I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I’d rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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.
Frank McCourt
Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?
Stacy Schiff
We’re raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it’s counter-productive.
J. K. Simmons
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson
Medals were – and always will be – the best thing to show your accomplishments in football.
Jamie Carragher
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I don’t have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it’s great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I’m constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
Clinton Sparks
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
Wilma Rudolph
I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.
Heber J. Grant
I like to measure people by their accomplishments in life and how they consistently act.
Brandon Webb
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.
David Herbert Donald
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
Tamara Ecclestone
In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.
Maryanne Trump Barry
I’m just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote is cast, hopefully my spot is secured in the Boxing Hall of Fame.
Andre Ward
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.
Bobby Orr
When I’m old, I’d like to wake up in the morning and not really do anything – just be happy to exist. I’d like to look at my accomplishments and sit back and revel in my own achievement.
Ben Gibbard
I think I’ve earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
Curt Schilling
Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street… those were like real accomplishments to me.
Chaka Khan
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Herodotus
The dynamic of fathers and sons seems to be more around competition regarding things such as knowledge, accomplishments, expertise.
Deborah Tannen
I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
Doug Liman
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientis

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
Edmond H. Fischer
I’m a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You’re introduced, and someone will say, ‘Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He’s judge!’ And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.
Karan Johar
To be aware of others’ accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
Hamza Yusuf
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius Caesar
I just play the game. Stats aren’t a big issue with me. I’ve been around six or seven years, and I’ve had stats in this league. I’ve had individual accomplishments. To me, it’s overrated.
Larry Johnson
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Alfred North Whitehead
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
Park Geun-hye
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I’ve remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven’t.
Renee Fleming
You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
Wayne Dyer
To me, I feel like your accomplishments have been recognized when you make the cover of a videogame.
Alexander Ovechkin
No matter what your accomplishments are, the records you’ve broken, etc., when a team is ready to move in a direction – they’re ready.
Donovan McNabb
To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama’s first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his ‘enormous skills’ and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies.
Ron Fournier
The whole period of the ’60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history… to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
Walter Cronkite
I’ve never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.
Mark Messier
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.
Nikola Tesla
However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!
Jonathan Brandis
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No matter how old we are, there is nothing better then getting the approval from our parents and the sense that they are proud of our accomplishments in life.
Yolanda Hadid
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Earl Warren
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain
We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.
Richard Engel
We all work really hard, and we do it because we’re passionate. We don’t do it because we’re being rated. However, we’d all be remiss if we didn’t think that some kind of recognition for efforts and accomplishments didn’t make you feel good.
Mindy Grossman
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
John Thorn
I don’t feel like what I’ve done are ‘accomplishments.’
Stefanie Powers
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
Bob Goff
I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.
Lee Trevino
No matter what, people have to respect my accomplishments.
Jermall Charlo
I love the team and was always proud to represent Israel and do everything to bring accomplishments and give the fans something to root for.
Eran Zahavi
We should be pointing out people’s accomplishments rather than their looks, but if it can promote our band, why not?
Alissa White-Gluz
I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing – whether it’s a hit, whether it’s not a hit, whether it’s a… your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
Lee Daniels
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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery