Best 1086 quotes in «achieve quotes» category

The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

The person who achieves spectacular failure has at least attempted something bold. Failure is a temporary condition. Success is likewise temporary. Life, itself, is temporary - so quit hesitating. Do something!

The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.

There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East

There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.

There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

There is no "I" in "Team," but there is an "E" for "Everyone." A team achieves more when everyone contributes.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing to achieve, there is only surrender to a life of service.

The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

Theres no doubt about it: Hillary is the best person to be our 45th president. Hillary has always been a tireless advocate for working families - shes never ceased to make sure everybody has a fair shot at achieving the American Dream.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

The time has come for a new immigration commission to develop a new set of reforms to our legal immigration system in order to achieve the following goals. To keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms, to select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self-sufficient.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

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

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.