Top 100 Quotes About The Achievement
#1. There is no correlation between the degree of comfort enjoyed and the achievement of a civilization. On the contrary, absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
Richard M. Weaver
#2. Success by one's efforts is the achievement gained through ability, not through deception.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#3. So, no matter what your personal aspiration, it is important to articulate it and implant it firmly in your heart and mind. Determined mental and emotional focus will invariably manifest the achievement of your desire more quickly than anything else.
Dannion Brinkley
#4. Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
Max Weber
#5. I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Saul Bellow
#6. The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.
James S. Coleman
#7. I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.
Buzz Aldrin
#8. My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
Fernando J. Corbato
#9. Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have.
Abhysheq Shukla
#10. So it is with the drug of praise upon which these children are trained to depend: the praise that is the sign of parental love, for the achievement that is the condition of that love. Every A is a fix that temporarily quells the anxiety of failure, the terror of falling short.
William Deresiewicz
#11. But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.
Albert Einstein
#12. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.
Ayn Rand
#13. In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
Brandon Sanderson
#14. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge
#15. Never give in to the obstacles that lie in your path towards the achievement of your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.
Julie Andrews Edwards
#17. The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.
Paul Murray
#18. I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Margaret Spellings
#19. The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.
Maya Angelou
#20. People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
Katharine Anthony
#21. Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.
Samuel Goldwyn
#22. 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
#23. We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.
Wendy Kopp
#24. The achievement of a happy life is not only positively good for us, it is constructively good for those around us.
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#25. Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.
Claudia Emerson
#26. Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self.
Timothy Findley
#28. The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn't just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.
Shereen El Feki
#29. Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every reasonable goal, as well as the establishment of any permanent social or political relationships.
Germaine De Stael
#30. A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.
George F. Kennan
#31. Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?
Walter Sickert
#32. Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
Bruce Forsyth
#33. May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
Cory Booker
#34. 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
#35. To lead people or influence them, we must first align ourselves with them. By identifying with individuals or groups, we gain their confidence and can then lead them into a higher understanding or direct them to the achievement of lofty goals.
Wu Wei
#36. Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#37. For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
Richard Asher
#38. Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
Henry Petroski
#39. The crown of literature is poetry. It is the end and aim. It is the sublimest activity od the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty.
W. Somerset Maugham
#40. It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.
Mike Mentzer
#41. The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
Henry A. Kissinger
#42. Without failure, we could not relish in the achievement of our successes.
Asa Don Brown
#43. The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs.
Stanley Cavell
#44. It is better to experience moment of discomfort in the achievement of your dreams than to be comfortable without accomplishing your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. The first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?
Aldous Huxley
#47. A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.
Marisa De Los Santos
#48. We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live
Rachele Baker
#49. Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.
Milton Friedman
#50. One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band.
Robbie Robertson
#51. Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.
Kitt Weagant
#52. Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
Sheryl Sandberg
#53. The search for power is not made for the achievement of moral values; moral values are used to facilitate the attainment of power.
Robert D. Kaplan
#54. I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
Robert Plant
#55. Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.
Royal Robbins
#56. If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success.
Arthur Saxon
#57. Yes, it's true, what I said earlier: A real life doesn't mean geting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too, is knowing what you love.But getting what you love? Having what you love love you back? Oh, my friend, it's miracle: your one tiny life's head-on collision with divinity.
Marisa De Los Santos
#58. The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops.
John Patrick Hickey
#59. The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.
Lawrence M. Miller
#60. So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.
Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
#61. The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
#62. L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism
James Luther Adams
#63. We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.
Nelson Mandela
#64. Take a daily action towards the achievement of your desired goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#65. If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
Sivananda
#66. Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#67. The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.
Mary Baker Eddy
#68. He who chooses to be a master never does 'just enough' to get by - nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?
James Arthur Ray
#69. The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.
Francis Parkman
#70. If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God.
Henry Thomas Hamblin
#71. Persistence drives the achievement of the desired outcome for reality.
Steven Redhead
#72. Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.
Robert Gordis
#73. The power of inner strength lies in the ability to overcome the adversities of life and pressing onward toward the achievement of the goal.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.
Chris Matakas
#76. The animals have desire, or appetite. But only humans have the ability not merely to desire things, but also the creative will to take responsibility for that desire and bring about the achievement of it. That creative ability resides in the nature of God, and he has passed it on to us.
Henry Cloud
#77. SETH said: When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement.
Jane Roberts
#78. But sitting out tests that have proven essential in lifting the achievement of at-risk students is shortsighted, if not selfish.
Anonymous
#79. Happiness is not the Achievement of Dreams.
It is the Path to Dreams.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#80. Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.
Denis Waitley
#81. As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.
Ralph Raico
#82. The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#83. Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with a richness rivaled only by elite private schools and those in the most upscale suburbs.
Chris Gabrieli
#84. Find your own dream! Keep this dream and take good care of it and then sometime you will accomplish something [and feel the intense satisfaction that only the achievement of a long held, worthwhile goal can give].
Koichi Tanaka
#85. It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
#86. There is always joy in achieving ,but the greater satisfaction lies in sharing the achievement.
Kipchoge Keino
#87. The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.
Robert D. Putnam
#88. Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges and rhetorical subtleties used in conversation by those whose main aim in life was the achievement and maintenance of the shifgrethor relationship on a high level.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#89. When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.
Marianne Williamson
#90. This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.
Leonard Bernstein
#91. What we do not earn ourselves," he said, "is never truly ours. It can always be taken away. But even if we lose everything we work for, the achievement is ours forever.
C.W. Gortner
#92. I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
Margaret Spellings
#93. The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.
William Pfaff
#94. Life is all about conflict. The pursuit of happiness - that's life, not the achievement. It's all about the journey, my friend.
Michael J. Sullivan
#95. When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.
Twyla Tharp
#96. One concept of activity, the modern one, refers to the use of energy for the achievement of external aims; the other concept of activity refers to the use of man's inherent powers, regardless of whether any external change is brought about.
Erich Fromm
#97. Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
Frank Gehry
#99. If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?
Christopher Bram
#100. The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
Bo Bennett
