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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
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
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned but give him a little metal a few chemicals some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and vroom! There he is up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
Russell Baker
The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
Elaine Morgan
There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles. (On aristocracy)
David Lloyd George
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.
Justice Arthur Goldberg
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
How many 'coming men' has one known? Where on earth do they all go to?
Arthur Wing Pinero
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Henry David Thoreau
They are able who think they are able.
Virgil
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
William Van Home
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
H. P. Liddon
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
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