Quotes about Achievement

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

For the pharisee the emphasis is always on personal effort and achievement. The gospel of grace emphasizes the primacy of God's love. The pharisee savors impeccable conduct; the child delights in the relentless tenderness of God.

We wonder if we serve better than someone else. We import a drive to achieve into our works of mercy.

If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

What is once well done is done forever.

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.