We Can Achieve Quotes

#1. The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

Momofuku Ando

#2. Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

Vincent De Paul

#3. 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

#4. The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#5. Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.

Thomas Banchoff

#6. The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

Sam Harris

#7. Oh, the things we can achieve when we aspire to the greatness within ourselves.

B. Roman

#8. When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.

Kay Arthur

#9. I have come to believe that contentment is a virtue we can aspire to rather than a state we can achieve.

Dave Bruno

#10. 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

#11. We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

Tom Coburn

#12. The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

Norbert Wiener

#13. If men would learn to pursue their own happiness rather than the misery of others, we can achieve a better life for everyone. Adopting this would help turn our Earth into a paradise.

Bertrand Russell

#14. I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

Sara Blakely

#15. Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming ill; it enables us to live a joyful life during which we can achieve anything we choose.

George Ohsawa

#16. There is healing power in believing, belief in the infinite power of Source, the infinite power of ourselves and the universe that has been created for us. Believing makes all things possible and when all things are possible, we can achieve anything.

Sahvanna Arienta

#17. Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.

David Gill

#18. One of the most essential truths to recognize is the fact that the only limits on what we can achieve in life are those we create and place on ourselves. Circumstances are the creation of people and not the other way around.

Robin S. Sharma

#19. Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

Donatella Versace

#20. We really believe that whatever we put our minds to, we can achieve.

Giuliana Rancic

#21. Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.

Ira Progoff

#22. Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

Billy Bragg

#23. We must understand that the British public's relationship with Europe is - and always has been, the sporting arena aside - about the benefits we can achieve in jobs, security, and quality of life from membership and how these benefits outweigh any disadvantages.

Gordon Brown

#24. We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

Mark Twain

#25. Dreams are the things which we conceive, and we can achieve them if only we would believe.

Sai Marie Johnson

#26. we can achieve happiness not by remaking ourselves, but by subverting unhappiness.

Jan Ellison

#27. Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve.

Nicola Yoon

#28. My view ... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

John Grierson

#29. They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

John Stuart Mill

#30. When we do things that are really hard, we can achieve great things - and that has worked as a great model for me.

Scott Kelly

#31. I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

Sara Blakely

#32. This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

Mitt Romney

#33. No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

Victor LaValle

#34. Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Aristotle.

#35. We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

Seth Adam Smith

#36. I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

Lucas Papademos

#37. The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

Kevin Rudd

#38. If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#39. If we set our minds, we can achieve anything.

Gabby Douglas

#40. We can achieve even more than we could expect if we try to be less distracted by the fuss of life and concentrate more on developing some qualities or characteristic of our soul and character

Sunday Adelaja

#41. There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

#42. If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth.

Martin Feldstein

#43. With ecstasy, what we do Here, directly impacts what we can achieve There.

S. Kelley Harrell

#44. 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

#45. I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

Hannah Hoch

#46. The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience.

Mario Batali

#47. Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

Naveen Jain

#48. We are designed boundaryless and limitless in what we can achieve. Unfortunately, we are also skillful in building boundaries and limits...

Assegid Habtewold

#49. ...If we can achieve this, then one day whole rooms, buildings, perhaps even bridges may generate their own energy, funnel it to where it is needed, detect damage, and self-heal. If this seems like science fiction, bear in mind that it is only what living materials do already.

Mark Miodownik

#50. We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

Barbara Boxer

#51. The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

Connie Zweig

#52. Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

Yo-Yo Ma

#53. We don't know what we can achieve because no instruction manual accompanies our birth

Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

#54. Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.

Ruth Benedict

#55. With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#56. The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Richard M. Nixon

#57. There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being lazy - having plenty of time to think - may actually be a precondition for achieving a great deal.

Richard Koch

#58. Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.

Takeshi Uchiyamada

#59. The sooner we find the answer to the question "Where am I going?" the greater result in life we can achieve

Sunday Adelaja

#60. The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Feynman

#61. If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

William Shatner

#62. I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

Robert David Steele

#63. Doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

Barack Obama

#64. One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

Ban Ki-moon

#65. We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger.

Sam Owen

#66. Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is to make sure that we can achieve the principal goal which is ensure that Afghanistan can never become a safe haven for a terrorist organization like al Qaeda.

Michael Mullen

#67. Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#68. My advice and wish to every woman in my country and in the world is very simple: Do not be afraid to be yourself, to have your dream, your vision, and to go for it. We can achieve a lot if we are sincerely committed to our goals and work hard to realize them.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#69. We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

Ron Paul

#70. It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.

John O'Callaghan

#71. Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#72. I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

Columbus Short

#73. Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.

John Foster Dulles

#74. To be free to achieve our most cherished goals we need authorities we can trust, assent to, and make our own.

R. R. Reno

#75. Just because we didn't measure up to some standard of achievement doesn't mean that we don't possess gifts and talents that only we can bring to the world. Just because someone failed to see the value in what we can create or achieve doesn't change its worth or ours.

Brene Brown

#76. It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

Gina Greenlee

#77. Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

Phil Crosby

#78. Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

Luigi Pirandello

#79. Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

Jeb Bush

#80. We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

Donna Brazile

#81. As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

Davey Havok

#82. If you try to live as well as you can, then hopefully your face will reflect that. But it's unfair that we put so much pressure on women to look good and then give them so much stick when they go under the knife to achieve this.

Diana Quick

#83. It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

Karen Carpenter

#84. If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

Sigurd F. Olson

#85. We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life ... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle ... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

Marco Rubio

#86. In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Olympia Snowe

#87. NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

Buzz Aldrin

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

David Platt

#89. No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.

Kofi Annan

#90. I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#91. After the Big Recession of 2008, many Americans found themselves without jobs, homes, and savings. We realized that we really can't rely on our 401k's to keep us safe. It's up to us to achieve financial freedom for ourselves. And home-based businesses is the way to go.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#92. There is a word in South Africa - ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us,

Barack Obama

#93. There is no separation between us and God-we are divine expressions of the creative principle ... there can be no real lack or scarcity; there is nothing we have to try to achieve or attract; we contain the potential for everything within us.

Shakti Gawain

#94. We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

Nelson Mandela

#95. It will be helpful to keep the following underlying themes in mind: Peace of mind is our single goal. Forgiveness is our single function and the way to achieve our goal of peace of mind. Through forgiveness, we can learn not to judge others and to see everyone, including ourselves, as guiltless.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#96. I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

Alan Dershowitz

#97. I just want people to feel like they can achieve something great in their lives. We all go through rough times, but love is the antidote. You've got to dream and just believe in yourself. And if you believe, you will achieve it.

Common

#98. I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

Russell Brand

#99. We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish ... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can.

Koushun Takami

#100. I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn.

Ron Davies