Life Quotes... Achievement

“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.”
                                                Althea Gibson Darben

“Well done is better than well said.”
                                                Benjamin Franklin

“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.”
                                                E. B. White

“The key to everything is patience.  You get the chicken by hatching the egg - not by smashing it.”
                                                Ellen Glasgow

“The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.”
                                                Ginger Rogers

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
                                                Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences.  Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing.”
                                                Isaac Bashevis Singer

“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
                                                Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
                                                Laurence J. Peter

“To achieve great things, we must live as though we are never going to die.”
                                                Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues

“Noise proves nothing.  Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”
                                                Mark Twain

“No man knows what he can do till he tries.”
                                                Publilinus Syrus

“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
                                                Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What we call results are beginnings.”
                                                Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.”
                                                Samuel Johnson

“The cards you hold in the game of life mean very little--it's the way you play them that counts.”
                                                Saying

“Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.”
                                                Saying

“Aiming isn't hitting.”
                                                Saying

“A man's deeds are his life.”
                                                Saying

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