Accomplishments

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon

It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages.
- Francis Wayland

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
- C. Malesherbes

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
- Thomas J. Watson

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
- Ayn Rand

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
- Peter Marshall

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- Francis of Assisi

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch
things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group. - Mary Kay Ash Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
- Booker T. Washington

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
- Thomas Huxley

Never confuse motion with action.
- Ernest Hemingway

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
- Abraham Lincoln

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
- Greek proverb

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks...
- Phillips Brooks

Everyone has superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the things intended was accomplished.
- Ulysses Grant

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson