One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things." (Quote by - John Burroughs)

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. (Quote by - John Foster Dulles)

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.. (Quote by - Lloyd Alexander)

The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty. (Quote by - Brooks Atkinson)

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. (Quote by - Maurice Chevalier)

It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. (Quote by - F. M. Young)

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. (Quote by - William John Bennett)

I feel good about the decisions that I made and m happy. You know, m really happy. (Quote by - Tom Cruise)

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. (Quote by - Pearl Sydenstricker Buck)

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Quote by - George Ellis)

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles. (Quote by - Og Mandino)

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. (Quote by - Les Brown)

Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream. (Quote by - Brendan Francis)

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. (Quote by - Harry Gray)

The virtue of deeds lies in completing them. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce)

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith )

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. (Quote by - Woody Allen)

You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. (Quote by - Robert E Lee)