I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.
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.
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can't get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.
In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.
My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.
One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments.
My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.
I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.
Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.
The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.
Messi is out of this world. Scoring 86 goals this year. . . In 2012. What an incredible accomplishment
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence.
Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.
I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.