“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.”
— Helen Keller (1880 – 1968), educator and writer, B&P
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to support you long enough to enable you to reach for something higher.”
— Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 – 1895), biologist and writer, B&P
“The world has yet to see what God can do with one man totally committed to him.”
— Dwight L. Moody
“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“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
“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”
— Jonas Salk
“Death comes to all,
But great achievements build a monument,
Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
— Georg Fabricius
“Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.”
— Gabriel Heatter
“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
“Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.”
— James Matthew Barrie
“Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.”
— Stewart E. White
“The human race is divided into two classes — those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, ‘Why wasn’t it done the other way?'”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), U.S. Supreme Court justice
“There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.”
— Hugh Prather, minister and counselor, B&P 1/10/03
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
— Indira Gandhi, QFTM 3/23/03
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
— Walt Disney, QFTM 5/31/03
“We sometimes feel that what we do is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
— Mother Teresa, QFTM 6/14/03
“Remember, no one is worthless. Any person can always be held up as a bad example.”