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| Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last | | Samuel Johnson | |
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| I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. | | Woody Allen | |
| I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble | | Helen Keller | |
| I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of | | Helen Keller | |
| 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 | |
| I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again | | Mark Twain | |
| If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. | | George Santayana | |
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| 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 | |
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| Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. | | Dale Carnegie | |
| No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are. | | Eric Hoffer | |
