Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Piper

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Peter Drucker

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

John Wooden

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

Herman Cain

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

Gil Scott-Heron

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

Jeanne Moreau

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

Harold Brodkey

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Iyanla Vanzant

Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

Kevin Johnson

Ray really starts with the customer. He looks at things 'outside in,' as he says, not technology-out.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Matt Walton

These low numbers may make us look good, but it also looks like we're not telling everything. Penn's numbers may look bad, but at least you know they're telling you everything.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Mark Grudzielanek

This is a team that strives to do the little things. When we do it out there, like we did tonight, it just looks so good.

David Wimhurst

This is really quite disturbing, and it looks like it's going to mess up things quite a bit.

Matthew Geller

(The wet AMD market) is already pretty big. There are treatments, but this looks like a positive step.

Tom Glavine

That's how we won them when I was there. It looks like it still works.

Bob Kluba

As long as our players focus, I feel that we ought to be competitive come tournament time. In addition, I feel that our record could very well merit us a berth in the Virginia State Independent Schools Playoffs. If so, it would be the first time that we qualified for the VIS.

Benjamin Disraeli

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Baltasar Gracian

The more merit, the less affection.

Alexander Pope

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Mr Howard

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Source Unknown

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.