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The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement.
The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without read more
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
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.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, read more
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
