You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
— Edmund Hillary
Off-limits Accomplishing Great Things quotations
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still
Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers.
Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages.
If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished.
It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished.
It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed
The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves.
Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.
It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.
If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have.
I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you;
no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that.
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes.
knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly.
Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.
He that rises after his falls, with confidence in God and profound humility of heart, will become, in God's hands, a proper instrument for the accomplishment of great things; but he who acts otherwise can never do any good.
Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.
It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.
You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
