He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
~ Horace
Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.
~ Archimedes
The only way round is through.
~ Robert Frost
If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
~ Abraham Lincoln
That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.
~ Neil Armstrong
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
~ William Henry Hudson
In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.
~ John Adams
Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country and thereby serve his children his neighbours his fellow men and the cause of freedom.
~ David Lilienthal
Good is not good where better is expected.
~ Thomas Fuller
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things and thence proceed to greater.
~ Epictetus
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
~ Goethe
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill but he will do very few things.
~ George
When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
~ Ethiopian Proverb
Everyone must row with the oars he has.
~ English Proverb
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
~ Sam Rayburn
God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.
~ German Proverb
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
~ Louis Pasteur
What one has to do usually can be done.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbour you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
~ Lin Yutang
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
~ Vauvenargues
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
~ Winston Churchill
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
~ Bertrand Russell
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~ David Lloyd George
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done Has earned a night's repose.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.
~ Elbert Hubbard
There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.
~ Louis Dudek
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
~ John Hancock
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
~ Arnold H. Glasow
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
~ Thomas J. Watson
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
~ Walter Scott
Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
~ Herbert Hoover