Accomplishment, Henry Ward Beecher

I don’t do more, but less than others.

- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), a famous American politician from the 1800s, When He was asked how he accomplished so much more than others

Accomplishment, German proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

- German proverb

Accomplishment, Ecclesiastes

Critique of Sages on the Day of Adversity

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; better is a patient spirit than a lofty one.

+ Bible, The Book of Ecclesiastes 7:8

http://www.usccb.org/bible/ecclesiastes/7