What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is read more

What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new read more

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement.

The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with read more

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best read more

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.