• Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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  Vilfredo Pareto

  EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 117 reads

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• I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 182 reads

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• I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 26 votes · 169 reads

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• I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.9 · 40 votes · 169 reads

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• If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 44 votes · 127 reads

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• It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.6 · 22 votes · 51 reads

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• Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.1 · 53 votes · 24 reads

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• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.1 · 20 votes · 45 reads

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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.3 · 13 votes · 91 reads

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• Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 129 reads

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• Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 162 reads

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• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 2 reads

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• No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 122 reads

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• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 76 reads

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• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 122 reads

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 81 reads

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

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 2 reads

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• Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy,

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  Wallace Stevens

  PoetAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 34 reads

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• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 83 reads

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• The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 132 reads

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• The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.1 · 24 votes · 16 reads

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

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 168 reads

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• The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 62 votes · 200 reads

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• The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.2 · 62 votes · 133 reads

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• The journey is the reward.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.1 · 8 votes · 92 reads

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• The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.7 · 43 votes · 81 reads

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• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.4 · 45 votes · 151 reads

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• The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  5.0 · 30 votes · 102 reads

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• The only way around is through.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 88 reads

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• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 161 reads

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• To spend life for something which outlasts it.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.8 · 22 votes · 182 reads

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• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 31 reads

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• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.4 · 19 votes · 114 reads

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• Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 79 reads

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