Quotes About Achieving

#1. Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had.

James Woods

#2. There is no disappointment so numbing ... as someone no better than you achieving more.

Joseph Heller

#3. We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

#4. Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.

John Wooden

#5. That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a lack of willingness to make great effort, a lack of willingness to sacrifice their comfort for those goals.

Orison Swett Marden

#6. My aim is to sort the jumble of information we throw at these children and present it in such a way that they will have a greater chance of achieving independence and fulfilment.

Adele Devine

#7. The dream is the destination, but the vision is everything involved in achieving the dream.

K.M. Logan

#8. The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter's intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter's, has the key to achieving the right balance.

Susan Shapiro Barash

#9. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

Harper Lee

#10. On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

Q-Tip

#11. He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#12. No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don't even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal.

Chris Murray

#13. This is a classic case of "achieving failure" - successfully executing a flawed plan.

Eric Ries

#14. People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them.

Stephen R. Covey

#15. Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

#16. Self-control is a key factor in achieving success. We can't control everything in life, but we can definitely control ourselves.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

#17. Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue ... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

Dinesh D'Souza

#18. Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.

Ray Dalio

#19. A strategy is nothing more than a commitment to a set of coherent, mutually reinforcing policies or behaviors aimed at achieving a specific competitive goal.

Anonymous

#20. Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

Robert Bly

#21. Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#22. While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

Narendra Modi

#23. Achieving your heart's desires is the key to living a life of bliss.

Steven Redhead

#24. Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.

Jay Conrad Levinson

#25. If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!

Isabel Sanford

#26. Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine

Sunday Adelaja

#27. Put into actions what you dream of achieving. It'll amaze you to discover that you can do more than you ever dream of. Just give it a try! Never be idle, take actions now!

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

Vita Sackville-West

#29. Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#30. Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

Brian Tracy

#31. Limitless opportunities abound, governed only by your focus on achieving them.

Steven Redhead

#32. We aspire to what we think we can achieve, and what we think we can achieve is influenced by what we see others achieving.

Daniel Isenberg

#33. Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves.

Mufti Ismail Menk

#34. The common man cannot see things objectively because his mind is clouded by anxiety about achieving his goals. Seeing clearly means not projecting our goals into the world.

John Gray

#35. In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor ... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.

William Rehnquist

#36. As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Thomas Sowell

#37. I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn't have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.

Portia De Rossi

#38. If you keep believing what you've been believing, then you'll keep achieving what you've been achieving.

Mark Victor Hansen

#39. One merely had the feeling that the disease had exhausted itself, or perhaps that it was retiring after achieving all of its objectives.

Albert Camus

#40. The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

George Orwell

#41. There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

Andy Grove

#42. The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

Pankaj Patel

#43. Your belief in yourself, is the Secret to Achieving anything you want.

Auliq Ice

#44. My goal is to assist people in the process of rapidly achieving their goals so they are able to live the life of their dreams. My hope is that they will eventually pay-it-forward and help those that they care about the most do the same

Jairek Robbins

#45. I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That's my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.

Jean-Marie Lustiger

#46. For achieving good governance political will is necessary. Good governance is a political process. Though role of civil society is critical, without political will and political process, sustainable good governance cannot be achieved.

Narendra Modi

#47. When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

Stephen Gaghan

#48. You cannot coach players into achieving something that they aren't committed to achieving.

Germaine Porche

#49. We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#50. I'm holding you back from achieving things in your life by forcing you to sit here and watch this.

Dan Howell

#51. While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

Mariella Frostrup

#52. The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

John Wooden

#53. Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#54. Kindness is essential to mental peace. As you will see in the pages ahead, the central method for achieving a happier life is to train your mind in a daily practice that weakens negative attitudes and strengthens positive ones.

Dalai Lama XIV

#55. If a human being is to ascend to the heights of life, they must first know who they are, where they currently stand, and what they are actually (in truth, not in their limited idea) capable of doing, becoming, and achieving in the world.

Emily Gowor

#56. Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

Karen Salmansohn

#57. Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures.

Debasish Mridha

#58. Only one thing is harassing you: your own idea of achieving things as quickly as possible. But meditation is not to be achieved; it is already there. It has only to be discovered. And discovery needs only one thing: a silent watcher.

Osho

#59. I've had purpose because I've always wanted to be successful, but having my son is the cherry on top. He makes me go harder in achieving all that I've dreamed of.

Ciara

#60. Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

#61. The biggest trap in life consists in achieving illusions after years of hard work and realize that there's nothing there but an empty you.

Robin Sacredfire

#62. Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams.

Miya Yamanouchi

#63. How amazing was this ability to achieve plenty by achieving little, to go home empty-handed yet still satisfied at the end of the day!

Elif Shafak

#64. Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

John C. Maxwell

#65. We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.

Eldridge Cleaver

#66. I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.

Carlo Rubbia

#67. Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?

Swami Vivekananda

#68. The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

Martha Beck

#69. You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals

Sunday Adelaja

#70. Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You're your own competition.

K.J. Kilton

#71. Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

Shannon Miller

#72. Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer

#73. I have since come to understand the reality that sometimes God wants us to go through a process without ever achieving what we thought was the goal. God cares about the journey more than the end result.

Shelene Bryan

#74. Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#75. Clarity! Accuracy! Think of your words as a key to fit into the lock of your meaning. Cast them with precision. That key should then be swift and perfect in achieving its aim. Well shaped talk is a release from the indefinite. It is explanation. Preparation. Nothing more.

Jane Borodale

#76. And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

D.H. Lawrence

#77. Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you'd believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#78. A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Vivek Wadhwa

#79. Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#80. But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.

John Hutton

#81. Remind me that woman must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities; that she must be the pioneer in achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#82. A woman sees the strength and potentials in a man and pushes him through support to be the very best. A girl sees him as less than he is capable of achieving.

Kemi Sogunle

#83. Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.

Sara Henderson

#84. I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving - hopefully - a kind of throwaway chic

Iris Apfel

#85. Anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way

Chuck Norris

#86. Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

Frederick W. Smith

#87. Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals

Sunday Adelaja

#88. Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Henry Petroski

#89. If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

Lynn Davies

#90. As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

Mia Wasikowska

#91. My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

Poppy King

#92. Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Bill Bradley

#93. Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind.

Rob Martin

#94. Reality just gets in the way of achieving goals.

James Hofer

#95. We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.

Elizabeth Berg

#96. My exercise varies from yoga to Pilates. The yoga provides me with achieving my balance and mental relaxation, whereas the Pilates allow me to work my inner core through stretching and keeping my muscles toned.

Erin Heatherton

#97. I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

Gioconda Belli

#98. All my adult life I have deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind's problems. I am firmly committed to the creative power of nonviolence as the force which is capable of winning lasting and meaningful brotherhood and peace.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#99. Achieving success is hard; staying successful is even harder.

Frank Sonnenberg

#100. On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

Eleanor Roosevelt