People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. Edmund Hillary
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. Mark Twain
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Happiness Flowers
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
The Paris store Colette is successful because it's a filter for things that are made elsewhere. It's the kind of store France needs. Christian Lacroix
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. John Fowles
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh Love
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge. Chuang Tzu
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature. Tadao Ando
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Theodore Roosevelt Courage
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need. William Faulkner
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. Theodore Roosevelt
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Leonardo da Vinci