Achievement
"The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best co-ordinate the brains and talents of his associates." - W. Alton Jones
"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth." - Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
"The tree is known by his fruit." - BIBLE, Matthew 12:33
"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." - BIBLE, II Timothy 4:7
"Measure not the work
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." - MARIE CURIE, letter (1894)
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"Each morning sees some task begin,
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god." - NAPOLEON I, attributed
"Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains." - ADLAI E. STEVENSON, speech (accepting nomination for President, 1952)
"Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?" - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, The New Arabian Nights
"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die." - MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
"If not us, who? If not now, when?" - Kennedy, John F.
"If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Thoreau, Henry David
Until the day's out and the labour done."
- ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose."
- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, The Village Blacksmith