“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”
“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”
“God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.”
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
“If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.”
“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”
“The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.”
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
“It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.”
“The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.”
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
“The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality”
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
“The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.”
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
“I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.”
“For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”
“It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
“Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”
“The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.”
“Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.”
“I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.”
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
“Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.”