In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
He could boast that he received it brick and left it marble.
We had run more than fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty leagues, and we had completed going round the earth from East to West.
In the whole history of human undertakings there is nothing that exceeds this voyage of Magellan's. That of Columbus dwindles away in comparison.
By sailing west until they reached the East, and then sailing on in the same direction, they had fulfilled an ambition as old as the human imagination.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
