What by duty's voice is bidden.
There, where duty's star may guide,
Thither follow, that accomplish,
Whatsoever else betide. [ R. C. Trench ]
Perseverance will accomplish everything. [ A. Cruden ]
It is tranquil people who accomplish much. [ Thoreau ]
We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [ Tacitus ]
The mind of man can accomplish whatever it resolves on.
Patience and length of time accomplish more than violence and rage. [ La Fontaine ]
The head, however strong it may be, can accomplish nothing against the heart. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]
With audacity, one can undertake anything, but one cannot accomplish everything. [ Napoleon I ]
What a pity that we can not accomplish our salvation as easily as our damnation! [ De Finod ]
Women can accomplish everything, because they govern those who govern everything. [ French Proverb ]
My modesty does not permit me to essay a thing which my powers are not equal to accomplish. [ Virgil ]
A faithful mother can do more in one quarter in the education of her child, than a schoolmaster can accomplish in years. [ J. W. Barker ]
Nature knows how to convert evil to good; Nature utilises misers, fanatics, showmen, egotists to accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time. [ Judge Hale ]
He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and tells neither father nor mother of it.
[ Lavater ]
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish. [ T. Edwards ]
That mere will and industry can enable any man to accomplish anything is a belief common enough amongst imperfectly educated man. But no one of really cultivated intellect denies the variety of natural endowments. [ Hamerton ]
It seems as if all classes and conditions in life might learn to get more happiness out of their work. To accomplish this, more sentiment and less worry must be put into our efforts, which must also be viewed in their larger relations and possibilities. [ Henry D. Chapin ]
Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose - a power to accomplish all that we undertake;
for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry. Pope in painting. Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men. [ Colton ]