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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.