I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
Accomplish
If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish – in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.
When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It’s better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mission to be a paragon to the rest of the world, to be about what human beings can accomplish if they work together and maintain their focus.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Everybody wants peace. That’s a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
By God’s help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.