Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing I can do or any kindness that I can show any human being let me do it now and not defer it. For I shall not pass this way again.
You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.
I do the very best I know how the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right what is said against me wont amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. NOTE: President Richard M. Nixon used similar words about his plan for peace in an address to the nation on the war in Vietnam November 3 1969: If it does succeed what the critics say now wont matter. If it does not succeed anything I say then wont matter. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon 1969 p. 909.
Theres no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue theres no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take when you reach a destination that you thought youd never make.
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
So little done so much to do.
Everywhere in life the true question is not what we gain But what we do.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Resolved never to do anything which I should be afraid t do if it were the last hour of my life.
Youll never prove youre too good for a job by not doing your best.
If it were done when tis done then twere well It were done quickly.
It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact that?s good taste.
The most effective way to do it is to do it.
If you wait until you can do everything for everybody instead of something for somebody youll end up not doing anything for anybody.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one does.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
If you cant describe what you are doing as a process you dont know what youre doing.
He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.
Skill to do comes of doing.
First say to yourself what you would be then do what you have to do.
Its not your blue blood your pedigree or your college degree. Its what you do with your life that counts.
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing I can do or any kindness that I can show any human being let me do it now and not defer it. For I shall not pass this way again.
We dont know who we are until we see what we can do.
You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.
Saying and doing are two things.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
What you do when you dont have to determines what you will do when you can no longer help it.
I do the very best I know how the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right what is said against me wont amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. NOTE: President Richard M. Nixon used similar words about his plan for peace in an address to the nation on the war in Vietnam November 3 1969: If it does succeed what the critics say now wont matter. If it does not succeed anything I say then wont matter. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon 1969 p. 909.
Dont consider that anything has been done if anything is left to be done. Nil actum reputa si quid superest agendum
Your best is good enough; good enough is not your best.’08-02-2010
I am always doing that which I can not do in order that I may learn how to do it.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
If you want to be successful know what you are doing love what you are doing and believe in what you are doing.
There are many ways of going forward but only one way of standing still.
Theres no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue theres no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take when you reach a destination that you thought youd never make.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Sitting quietly doing nothing Spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
Sit quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
If you dont get everything you want think of the things you dont get that you dont want.