Quotes About Accomplishing Great Things

#1. Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.

Katrina Kenison

#2. The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

Hudson Taylor

#3. The truth is, when you have little to do, you do very little. But when you have much to do, you do much. So it should make sense that by taking on more than you can handle, you accomplish more than you ever dreamed you could. And so it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith ...

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

Gregory Maguire

#6. The law is an ass, an idiot.

Charles Dickens

#7. How many things can I do without?

Socrates

#8. True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others.

Ellen J. Barrier

#9. Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are.

Nkosi Johnson

#10. Never let anyone distract your focus from accomplishing great opportunities in your life .

Tawana Beecham

#11. You ever get gut feelings? Like you see something and you just know?" Ty asked, feeling stupid but not caring. He felt Zane squeeze his hand. "First time I saw you, after I got over hating you, I knew ... I knew we'd die together. I could just feel it deep down. Never felt that before.

Abigail Roux

#12. It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing

Alexandre Dumas

#13. Prayer is the best answer to all of the trials that face us, because without prayer, even if we succeed in accomplishing some great goal in the eyes of men, we have failed in our sacred responsibilities, and thus we have failed in what is truly important.

Thomas Yellowtail

#14. Edinburgh suited Ann; she liked the tall, dignified buildings of grey stone, the short days that sank into street-lamped evenings at five o'clock, and the dual personality of the city's main street, which on one side had glittering shops and on the other the green sweep of Princes Street Gardens.

Maggie O'Farrell

#15. In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

Genghis Khan

#16. If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.

Wayne Dyer

#17. Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Roger Ebert

#18. Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.

Toni Morrison

#19. You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

Al Pacino

#20. Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Honore De Balzac

#21. Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Charlotte Bronte

#22. Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days

Joseph Smith Jr.

#23. When we commit our lives to the Lord,
He lives in us, He gives us grace and power to accomplish far greater things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. who achieve great things that the world will never forget, start out by accomplishing small things that the world will never see.

Bob Burg

#25. It's not God's great love that falls short in accomplishing redemption of nations

Sunday Adelaja

#26. I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.

Ricky Whittle

#27. The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

Robert Breault