Quotes About Achievement

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

It is a foolish thing well done.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

If the situation of a technological society was such that there could be no direct relation between a man's work and his modus vivendi, other than money, at least he must feel that he is directly changing things by his work, shaping things, making things that weren't there before, moving things from one place to another. He must exert energy in his work and see these changes occur with his own eyes. Otherwise he would feel his life was futile.

I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.

To look forward to whatever flowed through the doors. To save a life? Two lives? I felt proud. The burden of treating the intractable, untreatable, unplaceable, unwanted, had been replaced by the fantasy of being a real doctor, dealing with real disease.

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose- not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perserveringly...Even if a man fail in his efforts, it will be a satisfaction to him to enjoy the consciousness of having done his best (p.205)

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

"The game is done! I've won, I've won!"Quoth she, and whistles thrice.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

Cominciate col fare ciò che è necessario, poi ciò che è possibile. E all'improvviso vi sorprenderete a fare l'impossibile.

Never doubt your capacity to achieve and accomplish your goals. The world is your oyster, go find you pearls.

we have only one shot in this life,make the best of it