A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you
Doris Wild Helmering
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened
Herman Hesse
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day
Elbert Hubbard
What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less
Henrik Ibsen
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language
James Earl Jones
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
Henry Alfred Kissinger
The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive
Fran Lebowitz
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
Euripides
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
Unknown
Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan
One resolution I have made,and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."
John Burroughs
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
Walt Disney
It’s a solid organization where initiative and accomplishment-oriented communication happens in both directions.
Mitch Thrower
While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses
Eli Broad