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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.