Accomplishment is a four-step affair: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

An Accomplishment is rewarded not in what you get for it, but rather in what you become by it.

Accomplishment is generally the work of two types of men - those who were smart enough to know it could be done, and those too dumb to know it couldn't.

Accomplishment is a thing requiring patience — three feet of ice are not frozen in one day

Achievement is often grounded in the unreasonable — nothing is impossible for the man who will not listen to reason.

Achievement is like a mountain, so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

Achievement is the result of hard work. Those on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.

Achievement is never achieved by an exertion of the will when it is a thing of value.

Competence is learned — No man masters his craft the first day.

Competence is non-thematized. It is not the application of some inner theory of it. To recognize what a holiday is involves a sense of what work means, and to need a holiday or to feel tired.

Competence is, today, no longer of value. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Competence is a narrow ideal. It makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

Confidence is important in asking — He that asks faintly begs for denial.

Confidence is important — Assurance is two-thirds success.

Confidence is everything — "They are able because they think they are able"

Confidence is important to success — If your hoss knew how puny you were, he'd stomp you to death.