It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
~ Kin Hubbard
Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.
~ Epictetus
Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done.
~ Julia Louise Woodruff
It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.
~ George Eliot
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.
~ Lucille Ball
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It's the whole not the detail that matters.
~ German Proverb
Long is the road from conception to completion.
~ Molière
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
~ Brooks Hays
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
~ Mark Twain
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
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.
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.
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.
