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| Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
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| You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. William Adams Quotes |
| Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. Edward Albee Quotes |
| Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also The Foundation of courage and true progress. Lloyd Alexander Quotes |
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| People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. George Herbert Allen Quotes |
| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen Quotes |
| There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people. Jan Ashford Quotes |
| The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty. (Justin) Brooks Atkinson Quotes |
| Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace. Saint Augustine Quotes |
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| When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. Pearl Bailey Quotes |
| Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton Quotes |
| Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes |
| Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. Thomas Arnold Bennett Quotes |
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| The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. William John Bennett Quotes |
| Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. Warren G. Bennis Quotes |
| You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world. Sir Walter Besant Quotes |
| If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. Hans Albrecht Bethe Quotes |
| About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings Quotes |
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| What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life. Srully D. Blotnick Quotes |
| Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. Dr. Joyce Quotes |
| The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan Quotes |
| I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes |
| The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Quotes |
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| Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. Eric Butterworth Quotes |
| Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. Dale Carnegie Quotes |
| If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths. Alexis Carrel Quotes |
| If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. James Earl Quotes |
| If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. Maurice Chevalier Quotes |
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| Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government. Madame Chiang Quotes |
| Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations. I Ching Quotes |
| When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed. I Ching Quotes |
| He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair. I Ching Quotes |
| Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. Confucius Quotes |
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| Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. Stephen R. Covey Quotes |
| Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. Marie Curie Quotes |
| In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. Idi Amin Dada Quotes |
| It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings. Bronwyn Davies Quotes |
| Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
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| The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. Mack R. Douglas Quotes |
| Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes |
| Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes |
| In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. George Ellis Quotes |
| Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check. M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher Quotes |
| Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation. Lewis S(amuel) Feuer Quotes |
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| You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers." [to former Enron CEO Keny Lay] Peter Fitzgerald Quotes |
| There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford Quotes |
| To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe. Anatole France Quotes |
| The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? Brendan Francis Quotes |
| Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! Anne Frank Quotes |
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| Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is! Anne Frank Quotes |
| An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Dr. Thomas Fuller Quotes |
| The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist. J(ean) Paul Getty Quotes |
| To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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| He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish. Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
| Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. John B. Gough Quotes |
| What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. John B. Gough Quotes |
| No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. Harry Gray Quotes |
| The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. Russell Greene Quotes |
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| Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power. Gerard Hargraves Quotes |
| The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong. Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
| Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. Helen Hayes Quotes |
| The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains. Ernest Hello Quotes |
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| A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you. Doris Wild Helmering Quotes |
| We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. Heraclitus Quotes |
| Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. Heraclitus Quotes |
| All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Herman Hesse Quotes |
| The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. Napolean Hill Quotes |
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| What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve. Napolean Hill Quotes |
| Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are The Children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. Napolean Hill Quotes |
| One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. Etty Hilsum Quotes |
| You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one Swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time. William E. Holler Quotes |
| No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
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| He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? Lido Anthony Quotes |
| What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces … trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are … those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
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| [Today's students] can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. Jesse Louis Jackson Quotes |
| The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own. William James Quotes |
| Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. James Earl Jones Quotes |
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| The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Gustav Jung Quotes |
| Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Adams Keller Quotes |
| I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Adams Keller Quotes |
| The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert Francis Kennedy Quotes |
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| Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. Henry Alfred Kissinger Quotes |
| Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. Michael Korda Quotes |
| Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. R. D. Laing Quotes |
| Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion. Lao-Tzu Quotes |
| Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status. Lao-Tzu Quotes |
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| The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation. Lao-Tzu Quotes |
| Goal achievement is hero's work. Earnie Larsen Quotes |
| Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Doug Larson Quotes |
| Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible. Doug Larson Quotes |
| The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. Fran Lebowitz Quotes |
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| As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization. Bruce Lee Quotes |
| Ideas are the beginning of all achievement. Bruce Lee Quotes |
| As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes |
| Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world? Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right? To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this: we lack the mind of Christ. J. Arthur Lewis Quotes |
| Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. Georg Christopher Lichtenberg Quotes |
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| The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. Rensis Likert Quotes |
| Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. Vincent Thomas Quotes |
| If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. Vincent Thomas Quotes |
| The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. Vincent Thomas Quotes |
| Let us then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
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| Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve. Sophia Loren Quotes |
| The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. Og Mandino Quotes |
| Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. Golo Mann Quotes |
| Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. Golda Meir Quotes |
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| He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. Menander Quotes |
| Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish. Buonarroti Michelangelo Quotes |
| Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish. Buonarroti Michelangelo Quotes |
| If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it. Robert Montgomery Quotes |
| Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. Oswald Mosley Quotes |
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| Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes |
| Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Earl Nightingale Quotes |
| The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
| That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. Bo Bennett Quotes |
| Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do, will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, will never...never forget it. Curtis Judalet Quotes |
| Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. David Joseph Schwartz Quotes |
| Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. Wilfred Peterson Quotes |
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| The starting point of all achievement is desire Napoleon Hill Quotes |
| The value of achievement lies in the achieving. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. Arthur Helps Quotes |
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| High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Charles F. Kettering Quotes |
| Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. Charles J. Givens Quotes |
| My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary Quotes |
| The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. James Allen Quotes |
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| Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people Nido Qubein Quotes |
| It is easier to stay out than get out. Mark Twain Quotes |
| I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again Mark Twain Quotes |
| Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something Aldous Huxley Quotes |
| If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell Quotes |
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| Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. W. Clement Stone Quotes |
| To be free is to have achieved your life. Tennessee Williams Quotes |
| The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes |
| The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. Eugene Delacroix Quotes |
| Self-doubt is the little voice in your head saying " You Can Do It!" and the big voice saying " I Wish You Would"...listen to the little voice Sean O'Donnell Quotes |
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| All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts James Allen Quotes |
| The way to be nothing is to do nothing. Nathaniel Howe Quotes |
| The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play Warren Beatty Quotes |
| Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare Quotes |
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| Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the Swift course of time William Shakespeare Quotes |
| If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice David Seabury Quotes |
| Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring. St. Catherine of Siena Quotes |
| Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes |
| I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble Helen Keller Quotes |
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| Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Napoleon Hill Quotes |
| All great achievements require time. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo Quotes |
| Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. Gordon Parks Quotes |
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| Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. Robert H. Schuller Quotes |
| Many great things indeed have been achieved by those who chose not to leap into the mainstream Joan Mondale Quotes |
| If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden Quotes |
| Never mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden Quotes |
| Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill Quotes |
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| Its easier to stay out than get out Mark Twain Quotes |
| Little strokes fell great oaks. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. Albert Schweitzer Quotes |
| Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton Quotes |
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| We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. Cesar Chavez Quotes |
| If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings Dave Barry Quotes |
| You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible! Ezra Taft Benson Quotes |
| The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Harold Taylor Quotes |
| Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. Henry Ford Quotes |
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| He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much James Allen Quotes |
| I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? Max De Pree Quotes |
| Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand Quotes |
| You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. Dale Carnegie Quotes |
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| Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. W. Clement Stone Quotes |
| Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination. William Arthur Ward Quotes |
| The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. Vauvenargues Marquis de Quotes |
| What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life Srully Blotnick Quotes |
| Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement. Susan Taylor Quotes |
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| The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. Orison Swett Marden Quotes |
| Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing. Bart Conner Quotes |
| My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already. Dave Barry Quotes |
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| Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. William Arthur Ward Quotes |
| You must do the thing you think you cannot do Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller Quotes |
| None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also The Foundation of courage and true progress. Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes |
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| Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
| Achievement brings its own anticlimax. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand Quotes |
| If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances Bruce Barton Quotes |
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| The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past Brian Koslow Quotes |
| Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations Cavett Robert Quotes |
| It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing. Rosemarie Rossetti Quotes |
| Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. Ross Perot Quotes |
| Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden Quotes |
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| To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. Mark Twain Quotes |
| There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es Abraham Maslow Quotes |
| Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after Swift but synthetic happiness. Abdul Kalam Quotes |
| Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing. Albert Bandura Quotes |
| Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. Bruce Marton Quotes |
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| How my achievements mock me! William Shakespeare Quotes |
| Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes |
| Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. Ethel Barrymore Quotes |
| The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive George Allen Quotes |
| There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything. George Washington Carver Quotes |
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| To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. Leonard Bernstein Quotes |
| Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. Adam Clayton Powell Quotes |
| Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. Agatha Christie Quotes |
| Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes |
| A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. Camille Paglia Quotes |
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| The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit Dwight Morrow Quotes |
| If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough! Shel Silverstein Quotes |
| I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know Joanna Field Quotes |
| It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people. Karen Carpenter Quotes |
| The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. Mike Ditka Quotes |
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| Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| There are eight words or references that light up employers' eyes: languages, computer, experience, achievement, hard-working, overseas experience, flexible, and task-oriented. Carol Kleiman Quotes |
| To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that. Carlos Castaneda Quotes |
| A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. Cornel West Quotes |
| No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
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| Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause Nathaniel Branden Quotes |
| In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom Mary Ritter Beard Quotes |
| Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble Helen Keller Quotes |
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| We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. Aldo Leopold Quotes |
| To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. Brendan Behan Quotes |
| Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. Brooks Hays Quotes |
| I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. Carl Rogers Quotes |
| Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent. William Bernbach Quotes |
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| Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Theodore Isaac Rubin Quotes |
| Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
| Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it. Stanley H Cath Quotes |
| Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement John Hope Quotes |
| Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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| Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. Bo Bennett Quotes |
| Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. W. Clement Stone Quotes |
| God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The relative achievements of the two are often surprising. Walter C. Klein Quotes |
| The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments. David Joseph Schwartz Quotes |
| I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose. David Livingstone Quotes |
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| The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. William Osler Quotes |
| Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. William Osler Quotes |
| My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. Helen Hayes Quotes |
| Boyfriends weren't friends at all, they were prizes, escorts, symbols of achievement, fascinating strangers, the Other Susan Allen Toth Quotes |
| If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead Quotes |
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| You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way Abba Eban Quotes |
| To accomplish more, redirect your mental energy by continuously reminding yourself of all the things you do right Brian Koslow Quotes |
| You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world Charles W. Eliot Quotes |
| Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel Quotes |
| If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward Quotes |
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| Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted. William Hastie Quotes |
| The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. Denis Waitley Quotes |
| Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much Joan Collins Quotes |
| The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of Helen Keller Quotes |
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| It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. Charlotte Whitton Quotes |
| By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes |
| Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
| Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it Edgar Lee Masters Quotes |
| Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them. Gary Ryan Blair Quotes |
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| People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments. Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes |
| If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged Ovid Quotes |
| When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest Irish Sayings Quotes |
| What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. Benjamin F. Fairless Quotes |
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| For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning. Conrad Veidt Quotes |
| Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes |
| Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal. Earl Nightingale Quotes |
| Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. Frederic Chopin Quotes |
| All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond. Shania Twain Quotes |
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| Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. Nelson Mandela Quotes |
| Achievement - You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor. Larry Kersten Quotes |
| ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
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| Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! Andrew Carnegie Quotes |
| A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. Daisaku Ikeda Quotes |
| It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world William Cobbett Quotes |
| The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever. Wilma Rudolph Quotes |
| An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. Robert Bork Quotes |
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| An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honour that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics. Jeff Fenech Quotes |
| A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. Kurt Lewin Quotes |
| Behind us we can look back and see the great expanse of American achievement; and before us we can see even greater, grander frontiers of possibility. Bill Clinton Quotes |
| This is an era of woman's work in many spheres of activity -- of independent thought and individual achievement in the arts and sciences and learned professions, as well as the humbler, but not more self-sacrificing fields of usefulness. But every woman pursues the eternal quest for love, for sympathy, for understanding, for happiness, and in her heart is the great, holy yearning for motherhood. Billie Burke Quotes |
| The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. Walter Cronkite Quotes |
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| Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved. William A. Foster Quotes |
| I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential Shirley Chisholm Quotes |
| [Alex Cox, director of] Sid and Nancy, ... the closest sensory approximation of an acid trip ever achieved by a mainstream movie. Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
| The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| His achievements read like the Graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. Jonathan Larsen Quotes |
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| Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, Plutarch Quotes |
| The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip. Leon Edel Quotes |
| Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. Louise Bogan Quotes |
| If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances. Alberto Salazar Quotes |
| Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. Ben Stein Quotes |
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| If our air forces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal. Gen Nathan F. Twining Quotes |
| Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes |
| A person can achieve everything by being simple and humble. Rig Veda Quotes |
| Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. Robertson Davies Quotes |
| If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. Paul Bryant Quotes |
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| Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation. Pope Benedict XVI Quotes |
| New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual o Marshall McLuhan Quotes |
| People ask me if I could fly, I said, "yeah.... for a little while." Michael Jordan Quotes |
| Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought. Anne Wilson Schaef Quotes |
| Now, 0 for 50 would be a historic achievement on any other team, but on the Cubs it is usually called September. Bernie Lincicome Quotes |
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| Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement W. Clement Stone Quotes |
| Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement. William Arthur Ward Quotes |
| Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence. Vanna Bonta Quotes |
| Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes |
| Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| We had a good plan at the end of 2001, ... We executed it. We achieved everything that was in it and then some. But it wasn't good enough. ... So guess what? Now we have to respond again, and we're going to step up to it. Jim Padilla Quotes |
| There are more resources going into the high schools for things related to academic achievement. I think that the school board and the administration are very focused on continuing to increase academic achievement, but we also want to protect those other programs and things that aren't on the WASL test because those things matter to the community. Peter Rex Quotes |
| One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on. D.H. Lawrence Quotes |
| I had to fight for what I achieved. Althea Gibson Quotes |
| I think you would now agree that this would have achieved a far superior result for stockholders, Carl Icahn Quotes |
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| Those who lead disciplined and orderly lifestyles they achieve all their goals and progress. Yajur Veda Quotes |
| The mathematics of high achievement Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
| I've made no bones about it, that if this would happen, it would be the greatest individual athletic achievement of my life. When I think of all the great players who have played, to be considered one of the players that helped define the game itself, it is a humbling experience. Troy Aikman Quotes |
| There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes |
| What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point Orison Swett Marden Quotes |
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| I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. Ovid Quotes |
| It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the enjoyment of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
| I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil. Charles Mayo Quotes |
| Life's only limitations are those you set upon yourself, for as long as you strive hard enough anything is achievable. Chad Williams Quotes |
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| Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| He achieved everything he ever wanted, and the cost of that ruined him. It was something he never came to terms with. He never did finish another book. The drinking and drug abuse increased, and it was the beginning of his long demise. Dan Futterman Quotes |
| All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. W. Clement Stone Quotes |
| [Retirement could be tough for the self-admitted workaholic, who received a lifetime achievement award at the British Black Music Awards last year for her 40-year music career.] I never drink, and I have never done drugs, ... All I have ever done is work, work, work my entire life. Tina Turner Quotes |
| Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. Harold S. Geneen Quotes |
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| It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished. Norman R. Augustine Quotes |
| To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Man's greatest achievement is astonishment. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. Charles Towne Quotes |
| The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achie Walter Horatio Pater Quotes |
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| Big thinking precedes great achievement. Wilfred Peterson Quotes |
| Having an aim is the key to achieving your best. Henry J. Kaiser Quotes |
| To be on the podium is already a big achievement. But it's incredible to win this race. Hermann Maier Quotes |
| The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes |
| Control is never achieved when sought after directly. It is the surprising outcome of letting go. James Arthur Ray Quotes |
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| Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it. Robert J. McCracken Quotes |
| Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert Kennedy Quotes |
| Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. William Hastie Quotes |
| To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. Vauvenargues Marquis de Quotes |
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| I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself. Troy Aikman Quotes |
| I don't care about records, I'm proud of what the team has achieved. Russell Coutts Quotes |
| Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes |
| Nor is it out of character that Chicago's grandest achievement- a largely manmade arc of lakefront parks and beaches - began as a mistake. from waste thrown into Lake Michigan a 75-year-old dump. Pat Colander Quotes |
| I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes |
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| [But longtime friend and competitor Robert Johnson, who founded BET, says,] To me, his achievements would rival those of any business person in America, ... He had charisma, tenacity and passion to convince people that there was such a thing as a black consumer market. John D. Rockefeller Quotes |
| Great achievements only come with great risks. Dalai Lama Quotes |
| We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. Euripides Quotes |
| Achievement results from work realizing ambition. Adam Ant Quotes |
| What I've achieved now is something that I always figured I would as a kid. I've had that type of determination since I was a youngster playing around the playgrounds, getting dirty after school. Amare Stoudemire Quotes |
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| I'm so proud to have followed her achievements and to have done it in her lifetime. Venus Williams Quotes |
| The movie is the achievement. To be part of that particular artistic achievement, it's great. That's the reward. Edward R. Murrow Quotes |
| Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes |
| It's the greatest individual athletic achievement that's ever happened in my life. Troy Aikman Quotes |
| We live in our desires rather than in our achievements George Moore Quotes |
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| I've achieved everything I wanted. I have nothing to prove, including to myself. Looking at what I've achieved, I don't think there is anything that is going to surpass that. Kelly Holmes Quotes |
| The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated. Mack R. Douglas Quotes |
| One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| Society's limit on achievement is the glass ceiling that gives a resting point for those who fail to have their achievements defined by others. Calum Ross Quotes |
| My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. Clay Aiken Quotes |
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| The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. Daniel Dennett Quotes |
| If I were to be selected for induction, it would be the most meaningful individual achievement of my athletic career. Troy Aikman Quotes |
| the closest sensory approximation of an acid trip ever achieved by a mainstream movie. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Quotes |
| If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. Logain Clendening Quotes |
| To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction. Minna Antrim Quotes |
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| An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. Albert Camus Quotes |
| Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
| Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. Benno C. Schmidt Jr. Quotes |
| The Hillsborough County School Board leadership has embraced accountability and made significant steps to improve student achievement. It is an excellent example of how an urban school board culture of communication, respect, commitment, and responsibility can make such a positive change in their district, their communities, and their students' well-being, ... CUBE and its member districts commend Hillsborough for a job well done. Brian Perkins Quotes |
| It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes |
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| Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. Edward Dahlberg Quotes |
| The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. Neil Armstrong Quotes |
| The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill Quotes |
| The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat Nora Ephron Quotes |
| Agony and anxiety have not softened his heart; adventure and achievement have not made him humble. He is proud of his advance in the path of hatred and haughtiness. He revels in cruelty and sin. He displays an unholy satisfaction in immorality and untruth. He has reduced himself to a level lower than that of beasts. Atharva Veda Quotes |
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| Constant dropping wears away stones Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. Brian Tracy Quotes |
| No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you. Althea Gibson Quotes |
| There was a bunch of pressure to win here. I think it's a huge achievement for us and the team and GM. It's nice to bring happiness to the people who build it. Andy Lally Quotes |
| She's worked really hard to achieve what she's accomplished. Gene Rasmussen Quotes |
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| Those who never have time do least Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes |
| The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. Phyllis Schlafly Quotes |
| We can spend our whole lives underachieving. Philip Crosby Quotes |
| No great achievement is possible without persistent work. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| No one is expected to achieve the impossible French Proverb Quotes |
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| The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism George F. Will Quotes |
| There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. Loretta Young Quotes |
| We feel comfortable that the numbers we've got out there are achievable. Brian Halla Quotes |
| Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. Charles Turner Quotes |
| In our view, CSC could provide H-P with scale and reputation that would help H-P achieve its Services ambitions. The two firms' technology strengths are complementary. Cindy Shaw Quotes |
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| This accomplishment, which is hard to attain in the airline industry, is one we have now achieved over the past three quarters. Clive Beddoe Quotes |
| Unplugged debuting at number one is yet another amazing milestone achievement for Alicia, Clive Davis Quotes |
| The overall goal is to make sure the average scores don't mask the achievement gaps that exist between groups of students. Adequate yearly progress is one way of measuring that. Tammy Ridout Quotes |
| Everything I've accomplished I've accomplished through the grace of God and pure stubbornness Mary Fairchild Quotes |
| An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to George Eliot Quotes |
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| In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. Les Brown Quotes |
| This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed. William James Quotes |
| A rate-hike response by the ECB would not have achieved much [and would have been] counter-productive in slowing European growth. Alison Cottrell Quotes |
| We all know that a call-up to the Springboks (South Africa national team) is a major achievement and the rewards, especially financial, are huge. Ashley Johnson Quotes |
| It was a really good feeling to be selected by everyone in The League. It's a great achievement for myself and I'm really happy I made the team. Ashley Young Quotes |
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| We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that. Bruce Arena Quotes |
| People who have watched the program over the years appreciate what has been achieved and who contributed to it. Chris Monasch Quotes |
| We are proud that, with the introduction of this new truck, we have achieved Sterling's vision of being a full-line provider of vocational trucks. Not only is this a logical next step in the growth of the company, but it also provides a platform for future product introductions. Chris Patterson Quotes |
| It would be a good achievement for us. If we won (the trophy), it would just be something else that we could take into the playoffs with us, but the more important thing for us is to be playing well. Chris Phillips Quotes |
| The security system must always achieve its objective. If it does not, you have to fix it. Clifford Lewis Quotes |
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| The final outcomes of the Dubai negotiations are extremely disappointing, with the results akin to achieving a half loaf of bread, not well baked. Clifton Curtis Quotes |
| We take the under-achievers and over-achievers and we make a team out of them, and it works out. Teresa Luna Quotes |
| It feels good. It's a great personal achievement. There's not a lot of guys on that list. It's very prestigious. But I'd trade that for a state championship any day. Brett Brackett Quotes |
| She has continually asked us to reflect on our practice and to focus our time and energy on the achievement of our students. Brett Miller Quotes |
| If we can achieve perfect two-way action, we would win every game. We would end up winning the 5 percent juice that's out there, but that's almost impossible to do. Chuck Esposito Quotes |
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| This action is part of Dana's continued effort to improve cost competitiveness throughout its operations. The company expects to achieve this reduction predominantly through normal retirements and attrition. Chuck Hartlage Quotes |
| We needed to achieve a 600 percent increase in file system performance. Chris Maher Quotes |
| We are pleased to report another quarter of record revenue. I believe we are on track to achieve our financial goals in 2006. We continue to see growth opportunities in our business as hospitals adopt our product offerings as a way to lower their costs and provide better service to physicians and better care to patients. Chuck Jett Quotes |
| This is an outstanding achievement by administrators, coaches and officials at every level of the game and represents a significant boost to not only junior and community-level, but to underpinning the future performance of our national and professional teams, Chris Moller Quotes |
| This is an outstanding achievement by administrators, coaches and officials at every level of the game and represents a significant boost to not only junior and community-level, but to underpinning the future performance of our national and professional teams. Chris Moller Quotes |
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| achieved what we set out to achieve. Virgil Quotes |
| We would like to achieve this with partners within five years. David Evans Quotes |
| I think that we have all overestimated the rate of achievement in the Dayton Accords for things such as return of refugees, bringing war criminals to justice, and freedom of movement. Nevertheless, there are positive trends that show promise for the future. Alija Izetbegovic Quotes |
| Ensuring adequate resources for our schools and closing the achievement gap for Latino students is a critical issue for our community and the nation. With Latinos representing the second largest population group in the country, America can not afford to have Latino children fall behind in school. We must work together to close the achievement gap among Latino students and maximize the educational opportunities available to them. Arturo Vargas Quotes |
| This is an achievement we will remember forever. The kids, the parents and the community are set for life. Bob Vaughn Quotes |
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| He was unbelievable, really. You come out of nowhere to go to the Pro Bowl, that's a great achievement. That says a lot about him. Bobby April Quotes |
| We're very proud to have achieved this milestone. Our military customers have had faith in the Port of Beaumont to handle its military equipment in an efficient manner to support our armed forces. Chris Fisher Quotes |
| It just goes to show what can be achieved with a good marketing base. Chris Hancock Quotes |
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