“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
— Edward Everett Hale
“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.”
— Dale Carnegie
“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his
job well.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
— Mario Andretti
“The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.”
— Howard Cosell
“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
— Benjamin Franklin, QOTM 3/6/02
“People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.”
— Bryon Edwards (1809-1894), editor and theologian, B&P 6/13/02
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, QOTM 6/14/02