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~ Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude ~
~ The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves ~
~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved ~
~ I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble ~
~ The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat ~
~ Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession ~
~ Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status ~
~ The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation ~
~ Goal achievement is hero's work ~
~ Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties ~
~ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible ~
~ As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope ~
~ Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world? Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right? To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this: we lack the mind of Christ ~
~ Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself ~
~ If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives ~
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