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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.

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.

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.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life.

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.

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

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.