So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity.

luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity.

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.

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.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

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.

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.