St. Francis on achievement

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

~ St. Francis of Assisi, founder, Franciscan order

Nick Saban on setting high standards

Q: Why are you so tough on people?

A: Well, I don't know if that's fair that I'm really "tough" on people.  We create a standard for how we want to do things.  And everybody has got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry.  You know, mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

~ Nick Saban, 60 Minutes interview, "The Perfectionist," 2:00 mark, November 1, 2013

Vince Lombardi on achievement

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

-- Vince Lombardi

(In memory of Robby Moody, 1968-2020, R.I.P.)

Robby Moody with daughter Riley at Carolina Panthers game
October 5, 2014

Benjamin Franklin on liberty and speech

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin
1918

Ayn Rand on charity vs. achievement

We are taught to admire the second-hander who dispense gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible.  We praise an act of charity.  We shrug at an act of achievement.

~ Ayn Rand

Robert Louis Stevenson on achievement

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Ludwig Von Mises on higher living standards (message to Ayn Rand)

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you.

~ Ludwig Von Mises to Ayn Rand

Albert Einstein on achievement

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

~ Albert Einstein