While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses. (Quote by - Eli Broad)

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. (Quote by - Stephen R. Covey)

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. (Quote by - Marie Curie)

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. (Quote by - Helen Adams Keller)

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)

Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. (Quote by - Henry Alfred Kissinger)

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. (Quote by - Dr. Thomas Fuller)

You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. (Quote by - Peter Fitzgerald)

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. (Quote by - Stephen Covey)

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. (Quote by - Idi Amin Dada)

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development. (Quote by - Kit Bond)

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. (Quote by - Lyndon Baines Johnson)

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. (Quote by - George Herbert Allen)

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. (Quote by - Russell Greene)

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

I still believe Americ s destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity. (Quote by - Senator John Kerry)

Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. (Quote by - Colin Powell)

Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)