Top 100 Achieved Quotes
#1. Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#2. Sometimes, life is like mountain climbing. After you've achieved your biggest goals, you must return to the starting point to complete the journey and share your story with others to encourage them for their climb.
Tom Cunningham
#3. But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.
Adam Gidwitz
#4. Women with power and authority tend to intimidate people far more than men with the same qualities, particularly if those women deserve the position they have achieved.
Helene Tursten
#5. The Law was not how Israelites achieved salvation - it was how they showed loyalty to the God they believed in.
Michael S. Heiser
#6. The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person's profit can be achieved at the expense of many.
Rocco Leonard Martino
#7. In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
Sun Myung Moon
#8. 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
#9. Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.
Napoleon Hill
#10. The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. "I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined," he said sourly.
Lisa Kleypas
#11. Absolute perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to add, but nothing to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#12. Even if we acknowledge the existence of distinct and irreducible perspectives, the wish for a unified conception of the world doesn't go away. If we can't achieve it in a form that eliminates individual perspectives, we may inquire to what extent it can be achieved if we admit them.
Thomas Nagel
#13. I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.
Kinky Friedman
#14. In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.
Edouard Leve
#15. Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can't help but recognize it.
Jewel
#16. Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.
Mark Kostabi
#17. The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.
John Adams
#18. Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?
Liu Cixin
#19. Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.
Satish Kumar
#20. I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.
Lindsay Lohan
#21. But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.
Ayn Rand
#22. People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
#23. I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.
James Purdy
#24. The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. GLHR ... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.
Naomi Klein
#26. The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
Terry Pratchett
#27. Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#28. It is far too easy to discover complacency in mediocrity. Success is rooted in extreme ambition, implanted by divine guidance, and is achieved long before others are able to see it. Surprise them all, but you know this ... you are already there.
Carl Henegan
#29. The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
Jesse Jackson
#30. Inner peace can sometimes only be achieved after inner turmoil,
Christopher Halt
#31. By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Mikhail Bakunin
#32. The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.
B.W. Powe
#33. Just because you don't know how on Earth something might be achieved doesn't mean you shouldn't allow yourself to really, really want it. That's the essence of a dream, the realms of magic and of miracles.
Silvia Hartmann
#34. In nearly all cases where greatness is achieved, it's the goal that drives motivation and discipline - not the other way around.
Mark Murphy
#35. This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got to be some reason behind it. It has to be God. It's been created because of Him and the belief the boys have in Him.
Jarryd Hayne
#36. Young people ... who were casually profane, as though the validation of their own power could be achieved only by their assault on the sensibilities of others.
James Lee Burke
#38. I slowly lost any dream for myself. No one warned me of this, that the stars in New York can infect the light inside, that they can trap you in their shadow. Dylan was of course a star. He had achieved the thing we all came to New York wanting.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
#39. I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.
Bonnie Blair
#40. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.
Julius Streicher
#41. When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.
Sri Chinmoy
#42. A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.
Noam Chomsky
#43. I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.
Benjamin Graham
#44. Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration.
Paulo Coelho
#45. Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice.
David Alejandro Fearnhead
#46. France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.
Wilson Greatbatch
#47. Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.
Pratibha Patil
#48. Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.
H. Richard Niebuhr
#49. Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
Martin O'Malley
#50. I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#51. True success is not measured by how much you have achieved but by how many times you've failed
Brian Leslie
#52. One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.
George E.P. Box
#53. Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.
Thomas A. Edison
#54. While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#55. Yes, I'm satisfied, but the problem is you're not, and never will be. You're insecure, afraid of losing everything you've achieved; you don't know how to quit once you're ahead. You'll end up destroying yourself. You're killing our marriage and my love.
Paulo Coelho
#56. I believe that the world has become more democratic and open. Women have become more outspoken, more active and competitive. They have achieved great accomplishments in many fields that were previously dominated by men.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#57. However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.
Andrew Ashling
#58. I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#59. Perfection is only achieved when there is nothing more that can be taken away rather then when there are things that can be added
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#60. My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
F. W. De Klerk
#61. He looked at the walls,
Awed at the heights
His people had achieved
And for a moment -- just a moment --
All that lay behind him
Passed from view.
Herbert Mason
#62. The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#63. The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.
Martin McGuinness
#64. It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come ... he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#65. But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible to have achieved nine years and to have nothing whatever to show for it?
Ford Madox Ford
#66. Until you feel that you achieved, you are a Endless Achiever
Sivan Ravisankar
#67. Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.
Pal Schmitt
#68. Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith ...
Eliphas Levi
#69. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
Dalai Lama
#70. I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven't had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public's. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.
Maria Callas
#71. In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
Lytton Strachey
#72. 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
#73. When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
Abby Wambach
#74. American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.
Thomas Mallon
#75. Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.
Ernest Van Den Haag
#77. When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.
Chen Guangbiao
#78. All my life I've plotted and planned, been obsessed with those things.
And now you've achieved them. You are not satisfied. He nodded.
Life is a series of stairs of which we climb, Claudia ... your horizons have moved.
Catherine Fisher
#79. Changing the question 'free from what?' into 'free for what?'; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me on my migrations like a basso continuo. This is what we are like, those of us who are nomads, who come out of the collapse of a settled way of life.
Vilem Flusser
#80. If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
Evelyn Underhill
#81. Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.
Earl Wilson
#82. What great performers have achieved is the ability to avoid doing it automatically.
Geoff Colvin
#83. The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society
Tony Blair
#84. Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It's messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.
Rands
#85. You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#87. I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.
Bill Kirchen
#89. The helicopter has never achieved much success and ... may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.
Oliver Stewart
#90. Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
W. Somerset Maugham
#91. Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.
Lucy Powell
#92. I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, astatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock
#93. Latin America has not achieved the development that it deserves ... I'm not optimistic for all of Latin America, not only for Central America.
Oscar Arias
#94. In the eyes of the unrighteous it appeared that God did not intervene and that His Son died, but for believers it was at that precise moment that true glory was manifested and definitive salvation achieved.
Pope Benedict XVI
#95. To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Stephen Covey
#96. Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported by doctrinal convictions that have achieved some degree of clarity.
John Macquarrie
#97. The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.
James G. Frazer
#98. Now, are you happy? Have you finally achieved all you set out to do? What will you do next, little assassin, with no one left to see you?
- One Thousand Journeys of Al Akhar, various authors
Marie Lu
#99. We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.
Lane Kirkland
#100. Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.
Graham Roberts
