There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

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.

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.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard read more

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by read more

Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committee
for an animal adapted to communities without water..
it was a divine consensus.

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.

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.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.