Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

You may not think you’re going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

It’s not about ‘what can I accomplish?’ but ‘what do I want to accomplish?’ Paradigm shift.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you’re going.

You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.

Don’t bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

Find something you enjoy and love and you’re passionate about. And then dedicate all you’ve got to make it a success. And if you have those two things, I think with your passion and dedication, there is nothing that you cannot accomplish.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can’t give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.

I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.