You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.
Adam Carolla
There are people who are unsure, and maybe their minds can be changed based on someone's work and accomplishments. Those people are the ones I'm interested in having stay tuned and watching for the rest of my career.
Adam Cole
I have been measured on my merit and on my accomplishments.
Adena Friedman
For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.
Alan Alda
I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.
Alan G. Poindexter
If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.
Alcee Hastings
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life.
Alexander McCall Smith
To me, I feel like your accomplishments have been recognized when you make the cover of a videogame.
Alexander Ovechkin
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Alfred North Whitehead
Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.
Alissa Quart
We should be pointing out people's accomplishments rather than their looks, but if it can promote our band, why not?
Alissa White-Gluz
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Althea Gibson
I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole mature realm of accomplishments and responsibilities, an identity outside of being a writer.
Amor Towles
I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.
Amy Hempel
Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.
Ana Kasparian
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 think J. S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets but also as good as it gets, period - as good as existence, reality, life, and the world.
Andrew W.K.
I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.
Anne Sweeney
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
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
Arthur Ashe
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.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
What I really want is to create a name based on my own accomplishments.
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.
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
Prince was a child of our city, and his love of his hometown permeated many of his songs. Our pride in his accomplishments permeates our love of Minneapolis.
The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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.
It's not the part of being a celebrity that's so attractive to me. It's being recognized for your accomplishments and what you've done... becoming closer to what you want to achieve in life.
I like to measure people by their accomplishments in life and how they consistently act.
I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.
Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Are there days where I wish I was just at home with my kids? Yeah, most days. But then I look at our accomplishments, and I feel alive; I feel so proud of myself. So it's a very confusing thing to be a working parent.
Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Everyone fears change. But what you'll find is that change breeds your most important accomplishments.
The tremendous honor of playing on the world stage is even more rewarding when I am able to use my accomplishments to help others.
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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.
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.
I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
I just feel really good about my accomplishments. I haven't had, like, a party because a deal goes through or something like that. I don't know. I need to develop that - I need to have something that I do when things go right.
Big failures hold better lessons than any success - as long as you are in tune with yourself and are open to learning from them. I can trace every one of my accomplishments to earlier failures that I learned from.
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.
I stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.
By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.
