You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
Accomplishment Quotes
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
The tree is known by his fruit. (Matthew 12:33)
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7)
Measure not the work Until the day’s out and the labor done.
Security lies in our ability to produce.
That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding nine to one, His hundred’s soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit.
There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.