To Achieve Something Quotes

#1. Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#2. If you always have something in your life that you're trying to improve upon, then every day you have a reason to get out of bed, and you have a reason to achieve something and feel good.

Nick Offerman

#3. The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Alan W. Watts

#4. Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.

Joan Collins

#5. The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate.

Garfield Sobers

#6. I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Raymond Loewy

#7. When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#8. Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Paulo Coelho

#9. That concerns me. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. I don't think you stay the same in sports. If we want to achieve something special in the game, then these players have to recognize that they're responsible every day for getting better.

Russ Rose

#10. Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

David Platt

#11. 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

#12. We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Les Brown

#14. 42. The word "desire" means "of the sire" or "of the father." In other words, that strong impulse to achieve something is actually the "something" already in you, seeking to come out!

Derek Rydall

#15. The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

Kevin Patterson

#16. I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

Maurice Sendak

#17. It appears, Mister Lipwig, that you do not understand the nature of our relationship. I ask, very politely, for you to achieve something, bearing in mind that there are other ways I could ask, and it is your job to get things done.

Terry Pratchett

#18. All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

Robert Olen Butler

#19. Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.

Simon Sinek

#20. To achieve something, you need to be a little selfish...!!

Akansh Malik

#21. We all thrive to achieve something. Few fails early; many wins late. Why is struggle compared when success is overrated?

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#22. I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN ... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

Marat Safin

#23. There's always some pressure to achieve something. You make a pilot, but you don't know if you're going to get a show. And then, you make a show, but you don't know if people are going to watch. And then, people watch, but you don't know if enough people are watching.

Charles Halford

#24. For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got.

Ethel Kennedy

#25. You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

Rita Ora

#26. When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

Jack Welpott

#27. Everyone comes to live in New York because they want to achieve something, and for that reason, there's this energy in the city that is just electrifying and inspiring.

Daniel Humm

#28. It's only pain which leads us to achieve something special.

Anonymous

#29. I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

Yaya Toure

#30. I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

Ken Livingstone

#31. Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

Sathya Sai Baba

#32. I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.

Benjamin Stone

#33. I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as transcendent. Because that's the point of literature, I think: to connect.

John D'Agata

#34. It doesn't matter what you don't worth now, but the courage and determination you maintain to achieve something special in your life is all that will count in the end.

Darmie Orem

#35. Whenever you think seriously to achieve something, just take one advise : Think on Paper

Manoj Arora

#36. There's no amount of attempts that is ever too much in life mostly when you're determined to achieve something".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#37. It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

Billy Sheehan

#38. To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

Sebastian Seung

#39. Skill, education, money aren't the difference makers, passion is. If you've passion to achieve something, there's nothing that can stop you.

Assegid Habtewold

#40. I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

J.K. Rowling

#41. Never fight any progressive moves unless you can move faster to achieve something different.

Ferdinard S. Lawson

#42. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something ... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

Salvador Dali

#43. Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.

John C. Maxwell

#44. Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

Kenny Chesney

#45. I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it's an attitude that can't be faked. You've got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important.

Mary Kay Ash

#46. The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.

Zach Galligan

#47. Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.

Ayya Khema

#48. If I never tried, even if it takes me 20 years to achieve something, then I'd never accomplish anything.

Carolyn R. Tracy

#49. You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.

Jessica Watson

#50. I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed.

Sania Mirza

#51. Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire ... and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

Charles Dickens

#52. Although I love all genres, I really love to play in two main arenas: Comedy and Thriller/Horror. In either genre I love playing flawed, layered characters that are actively fighting to achieve something in the story.

Kyle Cassie

#53. You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.

Jessica Watson

#54. I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

Arthur Scargill

#55. If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.

Edmund Hillary

#56. Digital products are, for the most part, services that empower consumers to achieve something that they couldn't do before. Every screen must reflect your value proposition.

Jay Samit

#57. I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

Dominic Chianese

#58. In the vast majority of stories, a character with weaknesses struggles to achieve something and ends up changed (positively or negatively) as a result.

John Truby

#59. Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

Bob Proctor

#60. When you set your mind to achieve something, you must allow yourself the opportunity to get it done.

Tasha Hoggatt

#61. Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

Katy Perry

#62. Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.

Rajneesh

#63. I think the only way to achieve something that's classic is to be in the moment. You don't sit around and think, 'Oh, I hope this is remembered forever!' You just have to be honest, and I think that requires being in the moment.

Justin Timberlake

#64. When you wonder how to achieve something remember that love is the key.

Raphael Zernoff

#65. Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.

Meryl Streep

#66. To achieve something is better than not achieving.

Sam Winters

#67. In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.

David Harley

#68. Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

Ted Turner

#69. Cal, Archer, Jenna and I managed to achieve something truly impressive: the *four-way* glance.

Rachel Hawkins

#70. People do strange things when they've been inspired. Moreover they're moved to achieve something they never would've done before.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#71. even though there is nothing wrong with "good," that "good" can, and often does, prevent us from achieving more of our potential. Good will keep us satisfied with the current situation, and because of this satisfaction we may be unable and unwilling to try to achieve something better.

EZ-READER

#72. I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.

Elliot Easton

#73. To achieve something, action is needed; but thoughtful and calculated action is better.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#74. I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

Kapil Dev

#75. Actually, something is always happening. People who don't love the moment are always trying to achieve something, but when one is on the way, every moment is 'it.'

Charlotte Selver

#76. If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Noam Chomsky

#77. I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

Sonny Rollins

#78. When we have really resolved to achieve something," my father once said, "we succeed. We only have to want it, Juliane.

Juliane Koepcke

#79. He (a teacher at school) was the epitome of the Oxonian code of "effortless superiority" whereby to be seen trying really hard to achieve something was in many ways worse than actually failing it.

John Cleese

#80. In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

Panayiotis Zavos

#81. No-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#82. Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Sharon Salzberg

#83. It is not wrong to change in order to achieve certain goals in life. If you want a happy relationship, for example, you can't expect luck to bring it. You can't have something that implies you without being yourself there.

Robin Sacredfire

#84. I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.

Hilary Swank

#85. You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#86. How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.

Daniel Tammet

#87. A dream is a manifestation. Just like what you live is a manifestation, but a dream is quicker and easier to achieve, and not so troublesome if there's something you don't want.

Abraham Hicks

#88. As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much support from the people around me that I can achieve something like that, crazy introvert that I am, I never would have thought that would happen.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#89. If you don't feel something strongly you're not going to achieve.

George W. Bush

#90. Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

Amy Sedaris

#91. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Curtis Jackson

#92. Success is waking up in the morning and bounding out of bed because there's something out there that you love to do, that you believe in, that you're good at - something that's bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to get at it again.

Whit Hobbs

#93. To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.

Herb Ritts

#94. Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

Simon Sinek

#95. Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

Joe Manganiello

#96. When you want something, all the Universe conspires to helping you achieve it.
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Just ask..

Victoria Aldridge Washuk

#97. I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in order to achieve what was right for the people of South Africa is something I carry with me every day.

Aaron Schock

#98. And indeed if you think you're a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

Diana Wynne Jones

#99. Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.

Jim Rohn

#100. Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.

Adolf Hitler