Acknowledging Achievements Quotes

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.

Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

Don't analyze, celebrate it.

Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

It is important to recognize the small successes.

If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

Thinking about writing as an act of celebration is sometimes a helpful framework for me. It allows me to prioritize what I want to call attention to and what I want others to know about me. It makes me ask: What is worth celebrating?

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.

You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.