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"Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same." »Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance, 1994, p. 287
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"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively." »Golda Meir
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"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." »Norman Vincent Peale
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"I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished." »Johann von Goethe
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"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion." »Georg Wilhelm
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"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." »G. W. F. Hegel
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"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." »Henry Ford
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"If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal." »Unknown
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." »Dale Carnegie
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"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them." »Warren Bennis
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"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." »Confucius
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"The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace." »Saint Augustine
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"fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." »Frank Zappa
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"Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated." »Goethe
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"He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor." »Menander
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"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor." »Menander
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"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished" »Lee Iacocca
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"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible." »Doug Larson
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"When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants." »Saskya Pandita
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." »Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
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"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." »Mark Twain
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"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." »Carl Gustav Jung
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"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." »Annie Sullivan
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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." »Victor Hugo
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"A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished." »John Stewart Mills
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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." »Victor Hugo
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