Quotes on Achievement

1. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong.

2. "The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul." -Bible.

3. "When people are put into positions slightly above what they 
would expect, they're apt to excel." - Richard Branson.

4. "Think nothing done while aught remains to do." -Samuel Rogers.

5. "There are two tragedies in Life. One is not to get your heart's desire. 
The other is to get it." -George Bernard Shaw.

7. "None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going." - Oliver Cromwell.


8. "That low man seeks a little thing to do, sees it and does it:
This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundred's soon hit:
This high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit." -Robert Browning.

9. "Here is the answer which I will give to
President Roosevelt...Give us the tools and 
we will finish the job." -winston Churchill.

10. "The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think 
you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not.
 you still have to wash your socks." -Louis de Bernieres.

11. "I feel for eight minutes on screen, I should only get a little bit of him." -Judi Dench.

12. "The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult." -Mme Du Deffand.

13. "Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right 
are generally those who achieve something." -Aldous Huxley.

14. "I would much rather be known as a mother of a great son
than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece." -Rose Kennedy.

15. "It is sobering to consider that when
Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year." -Tom Lehrer.

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