I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 262
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Jorge Luis Borges
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
Richard M. Nixon
Start where you are, use what you have.
Arthur Ashe
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The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we can all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.
Sherwin B. Nuland
Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.
Vincent de Paul
If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
Kevin Costner
Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.
Carrie Fisher
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
Men expect too much, do too little,
Put the contraption before the accomplishment,
Lack skill of the interior mind
To fashion dignity with shapes of air.
Luxury, yes but not elegance!
Allen Tate
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.
Dean Karnazes
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
Germaine Greer
Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
Quantum Leap Thinking [is] an opportunity to get our energy out and target it in the direction of great productivity, leaving us with a feeling of accomplishment.
Leon Tec
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If you think, what was the last really big, big accomplishment for the nation that came purely out of the legislature? It might be the Americans with Disabilities Act. I mean that really was a legislative creation.
Tim Kaine
