Echoes

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The beginnings of all things are small.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

God is in the details.

If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.

These circumstances, trivial as they may seem, have their importance; since without them we could never have come to any certainty.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.

Slow and steady wins the race.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.