Something Achieved Quotes

#1. Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.

Brett Dennen

#3. When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.

Celine Dion

#4. I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Cicely Tyson

#5. When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

Yannis Philippakis

#6. I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

Giorgio Moroder

#7. For a long time, my life has not been quote-unquote normal. And I'm OK with that, because what I'm trying to do is something that's above and beyond, that not very many people in America or the world have achieved at all. So, I don't mind that my life is so hectic and crazy.

Mariel Zagunis

#8. Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive

Aliko Dangote

#9. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

Jim Morris

#10. I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

Akshay Kumar

#11. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

#12. Couple this discovery with the realization that my things shouldn't own me and that life's meant to be lived, not displayed on Pinterest, and my sense is I've finally achieved something close to balance. I feel excellent about actually having

Jen Lancaster

#13. It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

Charles E. Sorensen

#14. There is really nothing to be achieved here; only something to be accepted-the fact of your own divinity.

Paul Brunton

#15. Yes, bin Laden the man is dead. But he achieved all he set out to achieve, and a hell of a lot more. He forever changed who we are as a country, and for the worse. Mostly because we let him. That isn't something a special ops team can fix.

Radley Balko

#16. And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#17. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can't wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement.

Bob Marley

#18. Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

Tina Brown

#19. The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved,

Don Tapscott

#20. My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

Kathryn Bigelow

#21. We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

George McGovern

#22. 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

#23. Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

Sri Aurobindo

#24. People often confuse "goal" and "purpose." A goal is something tangible; a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved; a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals; a purpose remains constant for life.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#25. I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

Marat Safin

#26. A goal, however, is something distinctly different from a wish. It is clear, written, and specific. It can be quickly and easily described to another person. You can measure it, and you know when you have achieved it or not.

Brian Tracy

#27. A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love ...

Leonard Cohen

#28. Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#29. I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something.

Thomas Kretschmann

#30. The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

Warren Buffett

#31. I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer of thanks to God ... I had at last achieved something I'd wanted for so long ... My insides bubbled with happiness. It was a dream come true.

Cathy Freeman

#32. The development of the "We Believe" philosophy must be real and not cosmetic. Everyone must buy in and understand that it is not a motivational tool, but rather something very personal that should be lived and that all must believe in order for true success to be achieved.

George M. Gilbert

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.

Ann Patchett

#36. 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

#37. Most of the things I achieved in my life are through trying something which others and I thought won't be possible.

Nauman Khan

#38. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

#39. There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.

Tadao Ando

#40. Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.

Steve Maraboli

#41. Being fully present isn't something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it's being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

Pema Chodron

#42. Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom she could share all parts of her life, someone to be her equal and her inspiration.

Emily Arden

#43. To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.

Les Brown

#44. Being killed for Allan's cause is a great honor achieved by only those who are the elite of the nation. We love this kind of death for Allah's cause as much as you like to live. We have nothing to fear for. It is something we wish for.

Osama Bin Laden

#45. If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

Stephen Jay Gould

#46. I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#47. I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#48. It's a good feeling to come away from a day's work feeling like you've achieved something. Tired brain is good.

Dominic Cooper

#49. Our purpose is not Oneness but to realize Oneness. Oneness itself is not something to be achieved. We are One as spirit already. What we are working on is to remember and accept this Oneness.

Akemi G

#50. Success is never achieved for when your think you reach it, something else grabs your interest.

Todd Stocker

#51. I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

Rupert Friend

#52. We know that we have achieved something important for the club and for Villarreal.

Manuel Pellegrini

#53. Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the strengths you get from taking on your buried memories does not show up in your life until long after the resolution has been achieved.

Renee Fredrickson

#54. Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Max Weber

#55. True happiness isn't something that is achieved only once and continues; it is something we must strive for again and again.

Terry Lander

#56. Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.

Rudolf Steiner

#57. If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.

Sammy Cahn

#58. Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

Jean Giono

#59. I hope that, in a small way, I am interesting people in animal life and in its conservation. If I accomplish this I will consider that I have achieved something worth while. And if I can, later on, help even slightly towards preventing an animal from becoming extinct, I will be content.

Gerald Durrell

#60. It's amazing - and poignant - to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.

Ross King

#61. Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

John Maxwell Hamilton

#62. We feel happy when we accomplish something great, and our hearts filled with satisfaction about what we achieved

Abdulkareem Bkar

#63. [I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

Henry Whitehead

#64. The most critical are not the successful, nor the complete failures, but those who might have achieved something of worth, save for small but crucial faults within themselves, for they can seldom bear the thought of how close they came to greatness.

Anonymous

#65. Mma Ramotswe was right: evil repaid with retribution, with punishment, had achieved half its goal; evil repaid with kindness was shown to be what it really was, a small, petty thing, not something frightening at all, but something pitiable, a paltry affair.

Alexander McCall Smith

#66. Failure's still something I can say I've achieved

Alex Day

#67. It's dead nice to know I've achieved something.

Lauren Socha

#68. I've achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn't happen to most kids who grow up like me.

J.D. Vance

#69. Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn't necessarily mean you've achieved anything, you've got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do.

Paula Broadwell

#70. I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Jim Morris

#71. Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

Haile Gebrselassie

#72. You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals
my mission is complete.

Lennox Lewis

#73. The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Bernard DeVoto

#74. I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

Graham Chapman

#75. Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something more.

John Christopher

#76. Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#77. Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.

Dana Spiotta

#78. The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.

Dan Wheldon

#79. I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Arnold Schwarzenegger