#accomplishment

Satisfaction in life doesn't jump on you, you work for it, you earn it. You will not sit in a place, fold your hands and expect to be satisfied with life. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#faith #higher-living #inspiration #success #faith

If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment. ↗

— Herb Brooks

#feeling #great #great feeling #had #happened

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. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#against #basis #best #bill #did

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#despise #either #must #people #supervise

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #being #being busy #busy #does

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest. ↗

— Lesley Visser

#greatest #i #lasted #maybe

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. ↗

— Earl Warren

#accomplishments #always #failures #first #front

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

#bites #congress #hard #hard work #horse

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#character #great #high #moral #moral character

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#alaska #ballot #cast #conceivably #could