Achieves Quotes
Sad Quotes about Achieves

Do more than is required.
What is the distance between someone who achieves their
goals consistently and those who spend their lives
and careers merely following? The extra mile.
- Gary Ryan Blair

If a man achieves victory over this body,
who in the world can exercise power over him? He who
rules himself rules over the whole world.
- Vinoba Bhave

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
- Eugene Delacroix

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records.
A man can't retire his experience.
He must use it.
Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
- Bernard Baruch

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight;
that the clever man achieves his ends without violence;
that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
- John Keegan

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured
by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
- Swami Sivananda

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals,
I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
- Yasser Arafat

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
- Ambrose Bierce

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
- Heraclitus

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club.
One which bunches two pennants is a good club.
But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
- John McGraw

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve
is the direct result of his own thoughts.
- James Lane Allen

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which
the reader saws without much appetite.
- John Leonard

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves
goodness at a terrific cost.
- Stephen King

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often
focus on how much money or effort is spent,
rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
- Donald Rumsfeld

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon
find themselves exterminating dissenters.
Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the
unanimity of the graveyard.
- Robert Jackson

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
- Ernest Shackleton

Simplicity is not an objective in art,
but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering
into the real sense of things.
- Constantin Brancusi

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.
The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does,
what one feels, and what one achieves.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times,
and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying.
People fight to liberate their land.
But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
- Hassan Nasrallah

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture,
solves each problem as they came to it.
They helped themselves.
And they were helped through powers known and unknown
to them at the time they set out on their voyage.
They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
- W. Clement Stone

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)

It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell

To achieve, you need thought.
You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
- Ayn Rand

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
- Usher Raymond

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010,
and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
- Ray Kurzweil

If you want to achieve things in life,
you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart,
you'll succeed.
- Juliana Hatfield

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve,
not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand

Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Can you achieve your goals?
You can't reach your goal if you haven't
defined your goals.
And you can't succeed if you don't try -
and then pick yourself up
and try again each time you fail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams.
What I lacked was the courage.
- Clay Aiken

Managers in all too many American companies do not
achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
- Harold S. Geneen

If future generations are to remember us
more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world
as it was created, not just as it looked
when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree

And frankly, when I made that record,
hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
- Duncan Sheik

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
- Les Brown

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual,
a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity,
and creative strength.
- Lawrence Clark Powell

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited
resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively
and that programs achieve their mission.
- James T. Walsh

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses
despite a divided government.
- Jim Cooper

The young do not know enough to be prudent,
and therefore they attempt the impossible -
and achieve it,
generation after generation.
- Pearl S. Buck

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian
is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation,
the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
- Juan Goytisolo

If you had to identify, in one word,
the reason why the human race has not achieved,
and never will achieve, its full potential,
that word would be 'meetings.'
- Dave Barry

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
- Tertullian

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities,
to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a
place where people can achieve their dreams.
- Robin Hayes

In every aspect of life, have a game plan,
and then do your best to achieve it.
- Alan Kulwicki

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
- Ronnie Lott

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow,
half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
- Abdul Kalam

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
- John F. Kennedy

If life were just, we would be born old and achieve
youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it.
- Jim Fiebig

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art,
I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
- Alexandre Dumas

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process
actually took to finally achieve my fragrance,
Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
- Vivienne Westwood

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

Gates is the ultimate programming machine.
He believes everything can be defined,
examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into
a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
- Stewart Alsop